Answer:
C) they can't make their payments.
Explanation:
Makes the most sense.
I think the best words would be “smugly” and “surveying”
Although these three eras differ at some point, they have one similar theme that is about supernatural events. Romanticism and Victorian era often exaggerate and puts more emphasize on this theme while Modernism tries to prove that no such event or things exist. It might not be the expressed the same way but does, it three eras consider this theme common.
Telemachus can't string the bow on his fourth try only because his father signals to him not to. He wants the suitors to be distracted by the contest of stringing the bow so he can set his plan into motion, and then string it himself.