Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Sweet and gentle ladies, this day has been devoted, so far as I can see, to the doings of kings and sultans and people of that sort; and therefore, so as not to place too great a distance between us, I want to tell you of a marquis, whose actions, even though things turned out well for him in the end, were remarkable not so much for their munificence as for their senseless brutality. (p. 784)

Which option identifies the context clue that would be most helpful in determining the meaning of the underlined word?

...even though things turned out well for him in the end...
...to the doings of kings and sultans and people of that sort;
...not to place too great a distance between us...
...remarkable not so much for... as for their senseless brutality...

i'm thinking it would be when compound subjects are joined by or, nor,either-or, neither-nor.

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.

the characters are fiction but they are based off of people that were reaky in that situation

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.