It's been a while since I read the Crucible but I think its C. Proctor rejecting Abigail.
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The setting is established as a southern town where the people love to gossip and criticize and judge each other. The protagonist is Janie Mae Crawford and the voices you hear first are the townspeople gossiping as Janie is coming back to town. That is how she is introduced, as is Tea Cake her younger husband as well.
Explanation:
Hurston develops the exposition or frame of the novel by describing that Janie comes back in her southern hometown after her husband Tea Cake has died. The names of these characters are known from the gossip and people from the town talking, they are the voices that are heard first as the mysterious person walking into town is actually known. The character Janie starts telling her friend Pheoby about what had happened in her absence and where she was coming from. The first voices are from the people of the town, we hear about there comments and the way they judge people. Speech is important in the novel and it is how the book is framed through telling and gossip.
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C He took us down a long, dark hall to a room, where I immediately began to explore the remarkable inventions of the Americans
Explanation: this shows that Ernesto was very interested because of his wanting to explore the inventions of the Americans.