It means the state of being aware
<span>As the door slowly creaked open, Jessie peered carefully into the vast darkness, holding her breath.
The "slowness" of the creaking door and the "vast darkness" add a weight to the sentence unlike the others. </span>
It is A because it restates the noun, CAT, with a different name, CALICO. It is also A because WHICH is a relative pronoun.
C) We went to hear the man himself speak.
Himself is an intensive pronoun. Intensive and reflexive pronouns end use the object form of the pronoun and end in -self. Intensive pronouns are found immediately after the antecedent. In this case, after "man" because "himself" is intensifying "man".
Answer:
WHO WILL WRITE THIS MAN I THINK UHHH NEVER MIND SORRRY