Question

I have a real hard time with climax and I have 2 questions about it. Part A

What is the best description of the impact of the story's climax?

It raises the stakes and ratchets up the tension in the story as the narrator wonders what is in the box.

It releases the tension of the story by confirming what the characters always thought about Aunt Gertrude.
It provides an unexpected twist that dramatically changes the narrator's view of Aunt Gertrude.
It sends the characters in search of a solution to the mystery introduced in the passage's complicating incident.

Question 2

Part B

Which sentence from the passage's resolution best illustrates the function of this part of the story as identified in Part A?

“I had never asked my mother or uncle what they thought we might discover at Aunt Gertrude’s house, because I was certain that they would not know.”

“On the top was stationery that looked as if it were about 50 years old; the letterhead had a picture of a building with the words ‘Bratislava School for Girls.’”

“Aunt Gertrude had used [the money] to open a school for orphan girls in the city where she had grown up.”

“In the letter, she explained that she had been bequeathed a large sum of money when she was a young woman by one of the families for whom she had worked.”
If anyone asks I will present the passage. The story is called "Secret is Slovakia"