' Jody then went to the kitchen' the answer is given as intransitive but there is an object .then how this sentence can be intransitive?

An intransitive verb denotes an action which does not pass over to an object, or which expresses a state or being, such as:

He ran a long distance;

The balloon burst in the sky;

Please keep quiet, etc.

Thus, even in the sentence 'Jody then went to the kitchen', there is no object to receive the action. Hence, the sentence is in intransitive form.