Read the following passage from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Despite his decrepit appearance, Barlow was as dexterous as a monkey.

The passage is an example of which type of context clue?

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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.