Question

I GIVE MEDALS!!

from:The Scarlet Letter

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE MINISTER'S VIGIL, excerpt

Which line from the excerpt most explicitly states the danger to Dimmesdale in climbing the scaffold?

a. "without other risk than that the dank and chill night air would creep into his frame…"
b. "…save that ever-wakeful one which had seen him in his closet…"
c. "A mockery at which angels blushed and wept, while fiends rejoiced…"
d. "This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither,…"

Answer 1

I think it'd would probably A.

Answer 2

I think it is A too