Read the excerpt from Heart of a Samurai and then answer the question. Eleven eyes. When at last he dared to look up, what he noticed was their eyes. Each pair a different color: green as a stormy sea, blue as the sky, black as night, or brown as his own. One man had only one eye, and that one as gray as a cloudy day. The other eye was covered with a patch. There did not seem to be any tails, horns, or fangs among them. There were some alarmingly hairy faces and plenty of big noses, though! Six big noses, in fact: one long and hooked, two long and straight, one squashed and wide, one turned up at the end, and another as big and red as a radish. Based on this excerpt, what can readers infer about the stories the fishermen were told about the barbarians? a The stories are exaggerations. b The stories lack detail. c The stories are completely true. d The stories are completely false.