The answer is B. "He asked himself where it had come from and how; the past provided no explanation, and the future could not justify it."
This option is not a dark humor because it does not show the opposite side of happiness. The other choices explain that although there is happiness, he considered it as a burden- making it a dark humor.
B) it provides comic relief at a tense moment
I think the answer would be adds because it is present tense
3) They resulted in the passage of new laws or regulations.
Answer:
2. The first sentence of a summary states the title and the author of the text.