The correct answer is (C) a term for a words origin.
The author of the story is implicating that this person is a “hard lump of clay” or a “hard glinty coal” in the sentenc. Notice how in both of these examples they mention the word hard, and an object that is dull. They <em>could</em> be saying that this person was hard to befrend, talk to or whatever the content is and that they seem like a dull person.
For example, let’s call them Henry.
”Henry was a hard person to get to know, he was always very dull.”
Answer:
Kingsley learned to move the dugout canoe through rapids on the Ogooué.
Explanation:
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Fresh green grass began to grow again after fires scorched the earth