Answer:
B. To introduce a family that personalizes the plight of the peasantry
Explanation:
The answer would be "B," because even just glancing at the title of the story, you can tell that only answer "B," makes sense. It's on how a family in Russia is having to survive on their own.
D. Mary’s life did not turn out well (110% the right answer)
2, 4, and 5 have to be the answer by process of elimination
Edit: 4 "he followed out his original design," is incorrect but 2 "Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite" and 5 "On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable." are.
