Answer: A simile.
Explanation:
While being interviewed by a local news crew before the game against his old friends, now turned enemies, Arnold Spirit Jr. (known as Junior) feels uncomfortable with the questions. He´s suspicious of white people wanting to see Indians play against each other as if they were a degrading spectacle, like "watching dogfighting". This is a simile, a figure of speech that compares two different things by remarking their similarities.
Skimming and scanning first! This way you get a sense of what the story is about.
It is A. a statistic because public speaking is the Number One fear. The part that makes it a statistic is the "number 1" piece of the passage.
