A perfectionist is someone who tries to be the best at everything.
The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series is about a small woman who lives in an upside-down house in a lively neighborhood inhabited mainly by children who have bad habits. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a chest full of magical cures left to her by her deceased husband, Mr. Piggle-Wiggle, who was a pirate.
1- The correct answer is B.
The narrator could not believe what Miguel had said, so he run off to the park to investigate. When he arrived, he realized Miguel was correct: there were no traces of the carnival there: no holes where the spikes had been, no hay scattered about.
2- The correct answer is D.
The narrator's father was astonished because he believed that Miguel and the reporter were wrong. He could not understand how it could be possible for there to be no carnival in the area when he and everyone in town had been to one the night before.