A. Catches fire is the answer
Here are the vocabulary words matched with their definitions:
1. Gamboled : LEAPT (A)
2. Glimmeringly : UNSTEADILY (D)
3. Hindrances : HANDICAPS (E)
4. Snaggletooth : IRREGULAR (B)
5. Vigilance : CAUTION (C)
These are the synonyms or the words that matched the definition of the given ones. Hope this helps.
The correct answers are: B) the dystopian world that Gregor enters as an insect, and C) Gregor's sudden transformation into a giant insect.
A Kafkaesque situation is a nightmarish one, and also strongly surreal, so in that sense, the options that relate the most to said expression are the ones that have to do with dream-like things, like the dystopian world and Gregor becoming an insect.
<span>McCourt is using allusion</span>
