9. a story's exterior narrative is the a. actions and events in the story. b. comments about society and its institutions. c. main subject of a piece of writing. d. inner thoughts and feelings of the writer.

The correct answer is option A. "actions and events in the story". The narrative of a story means the plot or the events that take place, in contrast to the dialogue, which is the speech that the characters have while the story unfolds. A story's exterior narrative is a type of narrative that is characterized by the events that are told us by the sorroundings of the story. However exterior narrative is still the actions and events in the story.

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.”