This sounds like more of a personal question to be answer - sorry
buck has admiration for nature
Answer:
1. The woman visited the shop to get the record she heard on the radio
2. she suggested to Dolores to play the records so she could recognize which one is the song she must have heard on the radio
3. The woman looked depressed because when she was asked to hum the record she might have heard she became depressed in the thought of not being able to hum a national anthem
4. She remembered the source from where it came from
The speech is very focued, he seems to have his mind set to it, the tone relates to this situation in the text because they are talking about before death, and he is saying how he wants to stay the same when he dies like his body would stay the same.
The correct answer is A. Odyssean journey
This is an allusion to the great Greek epic Odyssey, and requires people to know what happens in the Odyssey to understand.