Read this passage from Dragonwings by Laurence Yep.

The demon stopped and studied Father as you might look at a dog that had suddenly said he was going to the opera. "Well, I'll be mad," he said. He reached into a pocket of his waistcoat and took out a card, and handed it to Father with a flourish. “I can use honest handymen like you. You come around anytime, you sabe me?”

Based on the content of this passage, it can be inferred that the man

will give Father a great opportunity at his office.
will immediately forget that Father fixed his carriage.
will give Father his own horseless carriage.
will never have contact with another Chinese man.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive