Today’s ACT question comes from the reading passage about Mrs. Sennett. It’s a detail question asking when a certain event takes place in the passage, relative to other events.
First: when does Mr. Curley cry at the supper table? You may still be asking, “Who is Mr. Curley?” The main characters in the story are the narrator, Mrs. Sennett, and the children, but we can see in the first paragraph that the children are those of Mr. Curley. Mary (one of the children) tells the narrator that her father cried in line 79.

Second: when does this happen relative to the events given in the answer choices?

G and H are far out of order.  J is tempting, but this, too, is in the wrong order – he cries just before the narrator learns that Mrs. Sennett will return to Boston. Luckily, F is in the perfect order: Mary has come out to watch the sunset just after the tearful dinner, so it is true that he cried before Mary and the narrator watch the sunset.