Which of these phrases is an examples of understatement

If these are your choices, then C. The full scholarship I received for college is O.K., I guess.  is the answer.

A.I just love it when my baby brother wakes me up crying at all hours of the night!

B.I was so excited about the news that I screamed for hours!

C.The full scholarship I received for college is O.K., I guess.

D.My sister first met her husband in Africa, even though he grew up a block away from us in Cleveland.

the answer is: tabard inn, southwark.

in "the canterbury tales," by geoffrey chaucer, the twenty-nine diverse group of pilgrims is staying at a tavern in southwark, london, as they are traveling to canterbury. they wish to visit the relics of saint thomas becket in canterbury   cathedral in order to him for his when they underwent necessities.

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.