1. D) the tour guide's dialect made him a bit difficult to understand
2. B)
As with any author's decision to use 1st person, her intention most likely -- in this story -- was to get her readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivate a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her plight. The constant use of "I" puts readers in the narrator’s head and allows them to empathize with her.
Assuming that you're referring to 'the rules of the game',
The reason why waverly's drawn to the elaborate secrets of chess is because she did not get a good overnight , and represent the relationship between her and her mother
A good hook would be "Is safety more important than privacy "