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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<span>Read the excerpt from Beowulf. Which of Heorot's qualities do these lines depict?The greatest of hall-buildings; Heorot he named it
Who wide-reaching word-sway wielded ’mong earlmen.
His promise he brake not, rings he lavished,
Treasure at banquet. Towered the hall up
High and horn-crested, huge between antlers
Darkness</span>
Answer:
an instance of pretending to be someone else in order to deceive others.
Explanation:
