I think that the answer is B b/c the first and last answer make no sense and it says that he walked in a buzz of excitement which made me think of choice b
The first situation in which he used it to get himself out of a jam was when he was escaping from the cave in which he met smeagol, who we know is intensely aggressive when it comes to the ring. He slipped the ring on and it made him seemingly disappear. Another, much more trivial situation was when he bid everyone farewell at his birthday party basically as a show stopper (but also to avoid the judging eyes and boring personalities of his fellow hobbits).
The ring does not make Bilbo tougher, if anything, it makes him weaker. The power of the ring breaks him down mentally and physically.
Answer:
When the narrator decides to ignore his father's words and eat the food of the gods, he realizes that he is learning to make his own choices.
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