On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire. The curtains of my bed were in flames. The whole house was blazing. ...I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Why did the author most likely include the underlined sentence?

to explore the possibility of the fire smoldering long before the cat was dead
to negate any idea that there is a supernatural link between the cat and the fire
to explain how the cat's death may be a remote factor in the fire
to disprove the connection between the fire, the cat, and the narrato

Stress generally occurs when someone? a. becomes overconfident b. disregards others c. feels overwhelmed

The missionaries who appear in the novel are colonists from a) britain b) portugal c) spain d) italy

How are the characters of tablin and keyn revealed in this excerpt from "the guard" by simon dunbar? a. indirectly through dialogue and by thoughts and actions b. directly through a narrative description c. indirectly through dialogue "where's my horse? " keyn asked. tablin looked around the dirt courtyard. he tried to peer through the shadowy arches of the flowing barrel. he even twisted in his saddle to look across the merchant's bazaar, past tents and warehouses filled with goods. "i don't know," he said. "did you leave it in your mouth? it's the only place i can think of that's big enough." keyn laughed; something got stuck in his throat half way, and he coughed for breath. "i can see you're good to go,” tablin observed as keyn struggled to clear his throat. “go get your horse yourself before i take the job and leave you to rot in the flowing barrel."