Answer: Indecision
Explanation: A visceral feeling is something you feel in your gut that differs with what your first initial thought is. The best way I know to explain this is with food.
You see the salad and your brain says to eat that, but your visceral gut says to eat the cake.
These battling emotions cause you to not be able to make a decision
Answer: A. Sensory details
Explanation: Good descriptive writing is comprised of five elements; Sensory Details, Figurative Language, dominant impression, precise language, and Careful Organization.
Yes, true. We have to do that at school sometimes.
This part of the excerpt seems to be correct as it reveals that the diet alone is responsible for his ninth birthday: "It had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all."