The answer is the character is scared and traumatised
In the paragraph, it had talked how the narrator had felt
when the earthquake had strike from the lines <span>My first inclination, as always, was to get away: "when
in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." Even they were
already in the safe placed, they were still afraid because of their experience.</span>
The "C. You fall behind on your work" answer is a regular outcome of being late for work based on the situation shown in the question above. Being late for work makes an employee start to work on a decreased period of time. This condition makes the employee falls behind their specified schedule of work.
This sentence is a simple sentence, even though it has 'and'.
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