The sun smiled on me this morning.
40. After spurring U.S. efforts to build an atomic bomb, Einstein worked to eliminate the arms race as a cause of war.
41. When you evaluate, combine, and restate information from many readings, you are
synthesizing.
The answer is b. It is separating the two adjectives that are describing the customer.
The definition of the antecedent of a sentence is that if a word refers to a previous noun or pronoun in the sentence, that pronoun or noun is its antecedent. Let's eliminate some options. Looked is a verb so it cannot be. All around the room is a general space qualifier and thus this is irrelevant too (it does not refer to Samuel's room for example). Now we find the relevant part, "his shoes". The pronoun is his. Hence, we have that the antecedent is Samuel.