Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
“it’s got to go”, shouted his sister, “that’s the only way, father. you’ve got to get rid of the idea that that’s gregor. we’ve only harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. how can that be gregor? if it were gregor he would have seen long ago that it’s not possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he would have gone of his own free will. we wouldn’t have a brother any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember him with respect. as it is this animal is persecuting us, it’s driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole flat and force us to sleep on the streets.” ("the metamorphosis," part iii, p. 31)
the inference that best supports this excerpt would be
gregor’s father’s compassion for the bug endangers the rest of his family.
gregor’s sister is unable to accept her brother after his physical transformation.
gregor’s presence threatens the security of his family’s living situation.
gregor’s compassion for his family disappeared when he became a bug.

Read this excerpt from guy de maupassant's "mother savage" about an old woman who takes in four prussian soldiers while her son is away fighting in the french army: but the old woman thought always of her own son, so tall and thin, with his hooked nose and his brown eyes and his heavy mustache which made a roll of black hair upon his lip. she asked every day of each of the soldiers who were installed beside her hearth: "do you know where the french marching regiment, no. 23, was sent? my boy is in it." they invariably answered, "no, we don't know, don't know a thing at all." and, understanding her pain and her uneasiness—they who had mothers, too, there at home—they rendered her a thousand little services. she loved them well, moreover, her four enemies, since the peasantry have no patriotic hatred; that belongs to the upper class alone. the humble, those who pay the most because they are poor and because every new burden crushes them down; those who are killed in masses, who make the true cannon's prey because they are so many; those, in fine, who suffer most cruelly the atrocious miseries of war because they are the feeblest and offer least resistance—they hardly understand at all those bellicose ardors, that excitable sense of honor or those pretended political combinations which in six months exhaust two nations, the conqueror with the conquered. a. a mother’s love has no barriers. b. in war, there are no winners. c. the common man is not patriotic. d. the poor suffer the most in war.