Read the first two sentences from the essay: “In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter.”

The first two sentences of the passage perform which of the following functions?

I. They provide necessary background for the situation to come.
II. They establish the setting of the passage.

III. They introduce the speaker’s attitude toward the Burmese

A. I only

B. III only

C. I and II only

D. I and III only