I think the answer is C lol
At first he tries to contact Daisy she and tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.
Second he called and failed to call Meyer Wolfsheim. It rung three times.
I think it is personification, because personification means to make non living things sound real, and the lines 149-151 follow that. “The taut gut vibrating hummed and sang a swallow’s note.”
The meaning of cryptic in this sentence is - mysterious
The 3 is in the thousandths column, so has a value of 3/1000=0.003
