Both because you can get stressed with homework and you can also learn from it to!
Im pretty sure that the answer is C
A, discourage you can tell because if you plug in the options that is the only one that makes sense and the opposite of dissuade is persuade which means to encourage.
Decline and respectfully decline.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Nothing is really happening yet, there's no conflict- all we know from this passage is there's a policeman walking up an avenue and it's 10 pm at night. These paragraphs exist to establish the exposition- the place, time, and character that we're reading from the perspective of.