Whose important papers had Kezia torn?

Correct answer: Father's

The governing concept is cause and consequence in a literary episode. Kezia was making a pin-cushion for her father and needed material to fill it. She found some papers and tore them up without understanding that they contained her father’s important speech. The papers therefore belonged to her father, making option A correct. Their destruction explains why Father became angry and punished her. The papers were not Grandmother’s, Mother’s, or a neighbour’s. Those alternatives test whether the reader can identify the owner of the papers rather than merely remember that Kezia tore some material while making the gift.