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The correct answer is (B).

The identification of the correct

answer requires you to make an inference about the feelings of

the author. It is clear from Twain’s comments that he has a

positive feeling for the area. Only choices (A) and (B) have this

connotation, but Twain writes about supposed incidents in an

amusing manner, not the area and its inhabitants. In addition,

the speaker, his friends, and the skeleton-like man are visitors,

not inhabitants. This leaves choice (B) as the correct answer.

Choice (C), the cold, is a passing reference in line 1. Choices

(D) and (E) are not supported by the passage.

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