Politeness could be both! It could be all good manners, but it also could be good lying. If this isn't what you are looking for, please explain more clearly.
A plot of a novel is an artificial ordering of events. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the third option or option "C". It is actually nothing but a fictitious prose narrative. I hope that this is the answer you were looking for and it has come to your help.
I had to look for the passage and here is my answer:
Based on the passage attached to this in which the one who narrates in it is Gulliver, the event that is being described in this passage is Gulliver's plan to escape from Lilliput. Lilliput is one of the fictional places in "The Gulliver's Travel" that was written by Jonathan Swift. The answer for this would be the first option.
No, I don't think the animals did the right thing by getting rid of farmer Jones.