The two sentences from the story's introduction that best support the answer to part A in "Once Upon a Time" are:
D. "I have no burglarbars, no gun under the pillow, but I have the same fears as people who do take these precautions." (Paragraph 5)
F. "I couldn't find a position in which my mind would let go of my body - release me to sleep again. So I began to tell myself a story, a bedtime story." (Paragraph 8)
"Once Upon a Time" is a short story by Nadine Gordimer in which she contrasts the innocence of children's books and bedtime stories with the tragedy that results from fear.
The narrator - most likely Gordimer herself - cannot go back to sleep after waking up to strange noise in her house.
The bedtime story she tells herself to go back to sleep, however, is far from innocent and uplifting.
It is about the awful reality of Apartheid; about how people, desperate for security amidst the riots and thefts, locked themselves behind bars in their own homes.
The bedtimestory the narrator tells herself is one of fear and violence caused by injustice and prejudice.
With that in mind, we can choose options D and F as the best answers. They mention the precautions of those people who crave security and the comfort of a bedtime story.
