<span>C. Rand doesn't want to climb the rock wall because he is afraid.
I agree with C being the correct answer. Throughout the passage, he describes the sweat pouring off Rand and repeatedly talks to himself about how they won't let him fall. We don't know from the passage if Tad is in charge of his safety rope so D is out. A and B are both incorrect - he doesn't mention looking silly and his sweaty hands are just a piece of the passage.
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He Green Knight<span> says that he will allow whomever </span>accepts<span> the </span>challenge<span> to strike him with his own axe, on the condition that the challenger find him in exactly one year to receive a blow in return. ... As soon as Arthur grips the </span>Green Knight's<span> axe, Sir</span>Gawain<span> leaps up and asks to </span>take<span> the </span>challenge<span> himself.</span>
In "To Build A Fire" by Jack London, the man is arrogant and overconfident. Of the four passages, this can be most inferred from passage C. Passage C reads:
"Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone."
This clearly shows that the man thought he was more intelligent than the older generation from the area that advised him not to travel alone when the temperature was 50 degrees below zero. It was 75 degrees below, but he thought he could outwit nature. As he was freezing to death, he realized he was wrong, but it was too late. He was overconfident and that ultimately led to his death.
