I think the answer is quench.
Answer:
"His aim was to free himself more and more from those unpleasantness and to give them a semblance of harmlessness and propriety."
Explanation:
He literally says his aim was to free himself. If this is incorrect, the answer is the sentence right after it. Hope this helps.
The answer is D. A haiku since it has 5,7,5 pattern.
Marta is the subject of the sentence because she is performing the verb "Planned"