3rd 1. "If she had been asked, she would have said that her name...did not belong on
such trash."
Miss Strangeworth is a hypocrite.
Miss Strangeworth thinks she is ridding her town of evil.
The townspeople are too afraid to ask her.
The letters are not doing their job.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

op: object of preposition