How do the villagers react to rip van winkle when he first returns to town after disappearing for 20 years?

a.
they are kind to him.

b.
they ignore him.

c.
they celebrate him as a hero.

d.
they are suspicious of him.

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.