Habitats are areas that provide the food, water , shelter and space animals need to live. Cavesprovide several different types of habitats.
My first choice would be A. When you read the excerpt, how does it make you feel? That's your first clue to the answer. If they want something book specific, I would choose C.
Everything that is said has mostly to deal with a tree, so that is why they used a tree for the image.
Update: c. he was talking about his health rather than listen about her husband and brothers.
The correct answer would be to distinguish her from less pilgrims. She does courtly things like weep for a trapped mouse but we also see that she has no problem feeding her hounds with flesh. From examples like these we can see that she behaves like a lady of the court as to imitate that behavior. It is not a reflection of her true feelings.