Which word or phrase expresses how the word abstained is used in this passage from the story "Steeled"? Sometimes there were stretches when my father abstained from the car for weeks or months, and those were the times when my mother was happiest and I didn't wake in the middle of the night.
A. thought about
B. stayed away
C. indulged
D. learned

Read the following excerpt from "Steeled" and answer the question that follows.

I wasn't allowed to eat the car--my mother's rule. I'd tried, of course, very early on, when I was three, and my mother caught me in the driveway biting along piece of panel flashing my father had pried off the car and left sitting on the pavement . . . . It was only for him to do, he said; it was not for children.

Which sentence best explains the effect of surrealist elements in this passage?

A. They manage to create an entirely magical, fantastical world that is nonetheless believable.
B. They suggest a world in which everything is possible and the laws of nature are different.
C. They seem to symbolize something that the characters find disturbing or troubling.
D. They cause the story to break all the rules of narrative, such as plot development.