An ambiguous reference occurs when a pronoun

a. may refer to two or more antecedents

b. refers to an unknown antecedent

c. modifies an adjective, adverb, or verb

d. functions as the object of a preposition

A. May refer to two or more antecedents.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

hope this answer you: )!