Answer:
“Marigolds” takes place in a rural African-American community during the 1930s—a time of racial segregation, poverty, and limited opportunity. This setting offers important clues about the development of the story's theme, or underlying message.
Explanation:
Based off the context of this sentence, the strong points: "one taste 'provoked another'", "to the flagon 'so often'", "that 'at length'", the synonym and or simpler definition to the said word (reiterated) or reiterate, would be repeat.
Actual definition of < reiterate >
Re•it•er•ate \rē-'it-e-'rāt\ vt-at•ed; -at•ing [L reiteratus, pp. of reiterare to repeat, fr. Re- + iterare to iterate] (1526) : to state or to do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect - re•it•er•a•tion \(') rē-,it-e-'rā-shen\ n - re•it•er•a•tive \ rē-'it-e-,rāt-iv, -ret-iv; -'i-tret-iv\ adj - re•it•er•a•tive•ly adv
Source for definition:
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
By: A. Merriam-Webster
The best summary of paragraph 2 is: "Gregor knows by the reality surrounding him that he has become a bug" (C).
Paragraph 2 is a description of the character's surroundings.
Through Gregor Samsa's eyes, the reader is given a look around the bedroom as Samsa is looking around him to try to find an anchor to reality: "It wasn't a dream;" "a proper human room." His reasoning is probably that if this metamorphosis was all a dream, his room would not look exactly like it was in real life. Yet, because the depiction of the room is so precise, with many details (like the textile samples on the table and the very specific description of the magazine cut-out), Samsa reaches the conclusion that this might be real.
D is correct. :)
It may be divided into acts and scenes.