The correct answer here is definitely A.
The excerpt shows the wilderness it is dog eat dog world and the only the strongest will survive. This is even explicitly said in the sentence:
<span>The
blood-longing became stronger than ever before. He was a killer, a
thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by
virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a
hostile environment where only the strong survived.
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<span></span>The wilderness does not care and it is a hostile environment and if you want to survive you have to strong.
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B it talks about them and describes what they are wearing
The sum of neutrons would be 55. (: I hope this helps. because if you minus the mass number by the atomic number which is always equivalent to the number of protons, you get the amount of neutrons. The amount of protons and neutrons always add up to the mass number.
Although the Pardoner would like to repeat it; money is the root of all evil. He makes sure that he benefits from his position.
He invites the so-called 'good' people to buy his relics and once they are bought, he proceeds to release them from their sins.
Then he preaches about how donating to his church would keep them away and protects them from their sins.
<em>Hope this helped! :)</em>