Franz kafka wrote the metamorphosis in 1915. during that time, people had jobs that were repetitive and boring. which excerpt from the passage best expresses this idea?
a. above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out . .
b. from this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place.
c. one morning, as gregor samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.
d. day in, day out, on the road.

She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. the spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. she did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. she had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. if the animal had died of ebola, this was not a clear case. she opened up the intestine. there was no blood inside it. the gut looked okay. then she examined the stomach. there she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine. this could be a sign of ebola, but it was not a clear sign. it could also be a sign of simian fever, not ebola. therefore, she could not confirm the presence of ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy.