Which quotation from “a horseman in the sky” shows how carter druze advances the plot of the story? “he could not hope to capture that enemy; to alarm him would but send him dashing to his camp with his fatal news.” “had he been awake, he would have commanded a view, not only of the short arm of the road and the jutting rock, but of the entire profile of the cliff below it.” “a touch upon the trigger and all would have been well with carter druse.” “duty had conquered; the spirit had said to the body: “peace, be still.” he fired.”

Duty had conquered; the spirit had said to the body: “Peace, be still.” He fired.”is the correct answer

Explanation:

d) the narrator even suggested that the white whale, moby d, was ubiquitous and present in every ocean at every moment.  

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.