Answer:
It is B. to provide backstory about an important relationship
Explanation:
Just took the test and it was right.
Answer:
"I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!"
In sentences a semicolon is used to combine two individual sentences; a semicolon is used in the place of a period. I believe this is right but I taught this to myself.