Answer:
Lack of care or attention.
Explanation:
The word negligence means lack of care or attention. You can also do a process of elimination with the other answer choices, by plugging them into the sentence to replace the word. You will see that this answer is the only to make sense.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Contest” can be called a work of historical fiction because it describes the former Roman Emperor Nero and recreates ancient Rome and Greece. So he took the events of the year 66 AD as a basis of the setting and chose Emperor Nero as the main character. The whole plot does not have any connections with the real events in history, author just made everything up, so it is a fiction built on historical basis.<span>
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In the beginning, when the narrator first hears the Raven saying that word, he is confused, but that is it. The more the Raven repeats the word, the more scared and terrified the narrator is, because he is realizing that he will never get to see his beloved again. In the end, he goes completely mad with fear, grief, and hatred towards the bird and begs it to leave, but the Raven answers only one word - Nevermore.
Answer: It suggests that similar missionary work was causing conflict in other places as well.
It leaves the reader with something to ponder. it's almost like a rhetorical question (but just not a question). it also seems like irony.