I'll have to go with D, but ask yourself:
"Which environment best matches the scene?"
Douglass didn't really have that much grief with his mother's death because it states he had the same emotion he would have with a stranger. A stranger to Douglass wouldn't mean that much and he wouldn't have grief. He wasn't that upset about his mother's death.
Answer:
What chivalric value does Arthur display in the excerpt? [Arthur] said, "Knight, by heaven, your request is senseless. What you ask is such madness you deserve to have it granted. No knight I know is afraid of your great words.