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A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
Answer: B. Has a bias in favor of Smith
Explanation:
The main point of the excerpt is that readers should be aware of the damage that the war has done to a generation of men who were impacted by it, and read the book with this idea in mind.
The epigraph wants to make sure that readers who approach this book do it with the same purpose as the one with which the author wrote it. He does not want the readers to think of this book as an accusation, a confession or an adventure.
