Select the correct text in the passage, Read the excerpt from "A Country Cottage." in which a couple is relaxing near a train station.
Which detail from the excerpt best marks the introduction of the conflict?
excerpt adapted from
A Country Cottage
by Anton Chekhov
"Let's see the train in and go home." said Sasha, yawning. "What a splendid time we are having together. Varya, it's so splendid, one can
hardly believe it's true!"
"Look! look!" they heard from one of the carriages. "Varya and Sasha have come to meet us! There they are!... Varya!... Varya ... Look!"
Two little girls skipped out of the train and hung on Varya's neck. They were followed by a stout, middle-aged lady, and a tall, lanky gentleman
with grey whiskers: behind them came two schoolboys, laden with bags, and after the schoolboys, the governess, after the governess the
grandmother
Here we are here we are, dear boy!" began the whiskered gentleman, squeezing Sasha's hand. "Sick of waiting for us. I expect! You have
been pitching into your old uncle for not coming down all this time. I daresay! Kolya, Kostya Nina, Fifa children! Kiss your cousin Sashal
We're all here, the whole troop of us. just for three or four days. I hope we shan't be too many for you? You mustn't let us put you out
At the sight of their uncle and his family, the young couple were horror-stricken. While his uncle talked and kissed them. Sasha had a vision of
their little cottage: he and Varya giving up their three little rooms, all the pillows and bedding to their guests the salmon the sardines, the
chicken all devoured in a single instant the cousins plucking the flowers in their little garden

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

a. to introduce the audience to important characters .

b. to inform the audience where the story takes place .

e. to lay out specific details about different plot points.