Answer:
idiom.
Explanation:
The phrase to smell a rat is an idiom that dates back to the 1500s. To smell a rat means to become suspicious that something in a given situation is not quite right, to believe that someone is attempting to trick you or that the circumstances are not quite right.
Beowulf is set among Anglo-Saxon tribes before they migrated to England. The answer is a.
The answer is B. Slavery ended long before that point, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke up about segregation. So A doesn’t make sense. C doesn’t make sense because MLK didn’t think things were going well, he spoke up because things WERENT going well. D doesn’t make sense either.
