Which sentence from the passage best supports the author’s viewpoint that the situation is hopeless? a) “we all pulled our soaked blankets tighter around our shoulders.” b) “the lament spread from wagon to wagon.” c) x “it was contagious.” d) “the death rattle of an entire convoy with the end approaching.”

The death rattle of an entire convoy with the end approaching.

The sentence from the passage that best supports the author's viewpoint that the situation is hopeless is d): “The death rattle of an entire convoy with the end approaching.”

Explanation:

In these lines, the author describes the scene with the knowledge of being close to death. In this excerpt, he says: "with the end approaching", he knows the end is coming and he seems to have no doubt about it, he is hopeless. It doesn't seem to be a possible way out of the death, that's why I chose the last option, because the author describes the end as a fact and not as a possible outcome of events.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

i think the answer is second