What can be inferred about Drood after reading this passage?

Which one of these lines use him to permitte which one of these lines uses iambic pentameter?

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.

Which statement most accurately describes the aesthetic impact of theexcerpt?