With an attention grabbing introduction
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.
B. ) yes it should be capitalized-all family relationship words are capitalized
It is about Salem witch trials and the behavior that can result from dark desires and hidden agendas inspiard by the McCarthy hearings of the 1950's Aurther Millers play