The answer is the amputation of the lieutenant's arm. None of the other options are events in the story. The lieutenant returns home and we don't know the outcome of the battle. There is also no evidence he was ever ill.
The passage would end with a twist because the reader would have been kept in the dark about key facts
Elizabethan era! .. or some say jacobean times, either or really
Answer:
BCAD
Explanation:
The most logical and safe sounding answer would be BCAD.