December is to winter as September is to Fall (or Autumn).
A. Purpose
I believe this is purpose because she is writing to argue that distributing medicine to rural parts of the world was worth doing.
3. The third person point of view (the 'he' vs. 'I' in this passage) is voiced by an observer with limited omniscience.
In this case limited omniscience is shown by the fact that the narrator has feelings about what is occurring. An objective character would remain neutral describing events.
CLOSELY and HEALTHY are your two adverbs because they end in -ly