I would describe a monkey's paw as smooth and warm
I do not think it was a dream because he already woke up from troubled dreams. "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." "What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream."
C. i believe because she seems to be dreading to go home since it is cold at the house and that she hasn’t sold matches