I think he may be right. But I have not read the whole thing, so I may be wrong.
D.Wiley, because he is the main character who fights the hairy man.
Oblique butterflyfish - Prognathodes obliquus
I’m pretty sure it’s B) tightly
Yes the correct answer is "said" (b). If you get stuck on a similar question, it helps to read the sentence with each comma to hear which makes sense.