Read the excerpt from white fang.
the man who had spoken came over to her. he put his hand upon her head, and she only crouched closer. she did not snap, nor threaten to snap. the other men came up, and surrounded her, and felt her, and pawed her, which actions she made no attempt to resent. they were greatly excited, and made many noises with their mouths. these noises were not indications of danger, the cub decided, as he crouched near his mother, still bristling from time to time but doing his best to submit.

which best states the perspective of white fang’s mother in the excerpt?
she pretends to trust the men even though she is angry.
she jumps on the men to show that she owns them.
she accepts the men’s friendly affections for her.
she is fearful of the men and shrinks from their touch.

The correct option might be she accepts the men's friendly affections for her because she would've gotten angry with all this touching, etc, but she didn't get angry. Somehow I believe she "enjoyed" it...

c. explains words’ origins and variations.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing