All of the followings are the rights and privileges of a common stockholders excepting:

a.
voting/proxy rights

b.
right to dividends

c.
residual right

d.
pre-emptive right

e.
right to interest payments

e; Right to Interest payments

Explanation:

Right to interest payments is not for common shareholders but for a company's creditors such as bondholders. If the latter own  coupon-paying bonds, they have the right to  receive interest payments in the form of coupons.

the assumption the narrator makes in this excerpt is that the messages he heards were going to hurt the narrator's mom; the narrator just springs in to action. the narrator doesn't specify in this excerpt why he believes that the messages present a problem that requires protection.

answer; i believe its (d) intrinsic;