In the first four lines, the speaker claims that the person to whom he is speaking:

Could you please add a link? I don't know how you are supposed to answer.

Explanation:

answer; ///(a) and (c) newspaper article and instruction manual; //so the answer is (e)

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.”