Reckoning means calculating.
Answer: D) CALCULATING
Maintaining eye contact with the speaker
I think.
because you could be writing notes, and that doesn't include eye contact
This final chapter depicts the complete transformation (not only in name) from Animal Farm to Manor Farm. There will never be a "retirement home" for old animals (as evidenced by Clover), and the pigs come to resemble their human oppressors to the degree that "it was impossible to say which was which."
The completion of the second windmill marks not the rebirth of Snowball's utopian vision, but a further linking of the animals and humans: Used not for a dynamo but instead for milling corn (and thus making money), the windmill's symbolic meaning has (like everything else) been reversed and corrupted. Animal Farm is now inexorably tied to its human neighbors in terms of commerce and atmosphere.
I believe you are referring to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. One of Tom's last act is to forgive Quimbo and Sambo. Quimbo and Sambo were ordered by Legree to beat up Tom mercilessly. However, they realize their wrongdoing and decide to heal Tom's wound. Tom then tells them they can still be saved by Jesus' grace.
The answer to the above question, i may be wrong... but i think it should be C