Answer:
b. he felt forced into making a medicine
A condensed summary compiling information about a particular field of knowledge is a compendium. The answer is option D. A compendium is a detailed and concise compilation of a body of knowledge. It can also serve as the compilation of the summary of larger works. The word compendium comes from the Latin word "compenso" meaning "to weigh together or balance".
Option D as they started with “some might think that” which means they are starting the opposing point, the counterarguement.
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
