”I know you're standing there cool as, cool as ice” what does the mean? What is it explaining? It's a simile I know that but what does it mean?

To be chill

Explanation:'

Someone who is relaxed or chilled or takes things easy

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”