Which line best highlights Bilbo Baggins' unusual youthfulness?
O When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party
of special magnificence
O The riches he had brought back from his travels had now become a local legend..
O At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved, but unchanged would have been nearer the mark
O Mr. Baggins was generous with his money, most people were willing to forgive him his oddities and his good fortune.

thousands of people

explanation:

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the answer is b. the tomb is underground and dark, and its opening is covered by a heavy grate.