the only two answers listed that even remotely work are B and C, but B can be eliminated as it doesn't match the tone of the rest of the poem, which talks about honor and dying nobly. Therefore, the answer is clearly C.
Answer:
The man was about to be hanged.
Explanation:
Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" tells the story of how a convicted man was about to be hanged on the railroad bridge. The man, Peyton Farquhar, was a plantation farmer who was accused of trying to burn down the bridge during the Civil War.
The lines/ excerpt given in the question is from the first paragraph of the story which shows Peyton waiting for his death. The author/ speaker of the story is describing the scene and setting of the story, the exact point where we see Peyton (yet unnamed) waiting for the rope to be pulled which will finalize his death.
For marshal replace it with assemble or A. For gather, replace it with B. or push.
Mr. Praed says he knows nothing of Mrs. Warren's profession, but his behavior indicates otherwise. However, he does not seem bothered by the fact that Mrs. Warren is a "working woman." He is nonjudgmental. As an architect, he is not of the upper class, but of the middle class.
Mr. Crofts, however, is directly involved in Mrs. Warren's profession by the fact that he owns brothels. His moral sensibility is much worse than Mr. Praed's as a result. He is a member of the upper class and feels very entitled to his wealth--also lowering his moral sensibility.
The correct answer is D. mob - move.
The root is the basic part of a word which is used to create other words by adding prefixes and suffixes to it. Here, that tiniest part of the word immobilize is mob, which comes from Latin and means to move. By adding the prefix im- you created the negative form of the verb, and by adding the suffix -ilize, you created that particular verb.
