Part A Which word is most clearly opposite in meaning to the word
malicious as it is used in this quotation from “Cub Pilot on the Mississippi”?
Choose the opposite based on context clues in the passage.
He was a middle-aged, long, slim, bony, smooth-shaven, horse-faced, ignorant,
stingy, malicious, snarling, fault hunting, mote-magnifying tyrant.
a. kind
b. funny
c. cruel
d. sarcastic

a.kind - malicious means to be mean in nature or mean harm. so it would be doing something nice!

Answer A : Kind

The word malicious means mean , unpleasant so kind is the only answer that works

the answer should be the first one. "many people find his lyrics very moving."

it by far makes the most grammatical sense and is very objective, removing any first person from the original sentence and keeping with the sentence fluency.