Which quotation from the story best supports the answer to question 4?
a Behind him is nothingness, one imagines hearing voices whispering in the background, but thi is probably a delusion; after all, he represents the end of all things, at least for us.
b citizens arrived to ask him for a government subsidy because the poorest quarter of the tow had been burned to the ground.
c "As on all solemn occasions the colonel stood upright, holding in front of him two poles of bamboo in his outstretched hands
d....he was already standing opposite the colonel when his courage failed him and, muttering a few excuses.
