The Crystal Merchant has been tricked over time into believing “the world's greatest lie” because he hadn't changed his life in 30 years and was in the mindset that it was too late for him to change anything because being a crystal merchant was all he knew how to do.
This was a Ticket Out the Door for me....The correct answer is A
I put A. and got it right!
Part a should be a because assents means to express approval so the took the challenge and
Part b should be d because he drove him away
Its a long uninterrupted speech where the character expresses its main goal