Question

This is a question on a multiple-choice packet I'm doing and I'm completely baffled on what to choose. Well, perhaps not completely baffled, but it's quite a hard choice.

(This is from chapter 10 in Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, the sentence being "Of this the child understood nothing; yet something he did understand, for he would listen solemnly to the deep melodious names, and gaze at his uncle out of wide and serious eyes" near the beginning of the chapter).

The question goes as follows:

In the fourth paragraph, when Kumalo tells the boy about the countryside and the narrator sT nc I'm doing and I'm completely baffled on what to choose. Well, perhaps not completely baffled, but it's quite a hard choice.

(This is from chapter 10 in Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, the sentence being "Of this the child understood nothing; yet something he did understand, for he would listen solemnly to the deep melodious names, and gaze at his uncle out of wide and serious eyes" near the beginning of the chapter).

The question goes as follows:

In the fourth paragraph, when Kumalo tells the boy about the countryside and the narrator s

Answer 1

In the fourth paragraph, when Kumalo tells the boy about the countryside and the narrator says, "Of this the child understood nothing; yet something he did understand . . .," the "something" the boy understands is that

a) The land being described is his homeland.
b) Ndotsheni will be his future home.
c) Kumalo is paying loving attention to him.
d) Nature is important to his people.
e) He will soon be moving to a different land.

I have it between a, b, and e.
Help?