Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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acid. Carol's hand was on his arm, Carol's thin and breathless voice "All right, all right, I get the idea." "You don't say—" . You don't say—" shook as she said, "A drink—all the drinks you want." "One will do. And you." No, don't fill it up first at that fountain. And Frances, stop bouncing your ball. You'll lose it through the bars, and a polar "There is no time for silly time to leave." "No, not yet. You are always cause no trouble. But we still "We must have our story prepared first." Manto wanted to win easy popularity by treating a few of the "Gee, your father gives you an awful lot of spending money," The other one smiled with amusement and at first did not answer. Then she began to skip hear Mr. George. Now, if Mr. George is so kind as to entertain "No, children, we mustn't do face. "I've been here before. Wallabies and wombats!" "Why don't you ask him to?" "God knows what I'll have to go through," said Curt. "And I "Yes, yes, I know." A shrill cry came from another "Because people are depending quits whenever you run into right for being so careless. "All right, you may stay with us until we find a policeman—" She made a face. "Don't talk nonsense. Take your outfit, and let's get ready to go. Unless you want to change here, and walk around dressed as a lion hunter." a hurry, so as to lose any resemblance "But a drunken lion hunter—that's something special." He to Miss Burton's. "I'm They're too ordinary." went into the next room and began An outburst of shrill laughter. "She's two years old, she's Curt George!" that would enable him to brave the wrath of man, beast, or devil. "How do I look?" "All right, if you're good, and Mr. George. It's only two now, poor woman's edition of Rudolph "I feel terrified. I don't know how I'm going to face those kids. Valentino." us his autograph?" "Now, children, I've warned you about that. You mustn't annoy him. Mr. George is a famous If they were boys it wouldn't be and we're not supposed to go to "You would talk of water, when you know how I feel." "Sorry. Come on, let's go." The lecture hall resounded we mustn't take advantage of his he's just crazy about them." "I know, but—he's not in good health, children. They say he got jungle fever in Africa, where he was shooting all those lions, and rhinoceroses, and elephants for his new picture. That's why you mustn't bother him too much." "But he looks so big and hurt him to sign an autograph!" "Oh, yes, it would," asserted one little girl. "He shakes. When he has an attack of fever, his hand shakes." "Yes, Africa is a dangerous continent, and one never knows how the dangers will strike one," and whispers, Manto and Palit could exchange confidences without bravely Mr. George is fighting being noticed. Palit said savagely, "Stop it, you fool, before you Curt George's handsome, manly face wore an expression of distress. He groaned dismally, and "Did you tempt me! You and your sense of humor!" muttered, "What a head I've got, without a drink to pick me up?" "You've had your drink," said I think, comes the lion-hunter. Let's scream, and be as properly excited as every one else is." and she could sense his resentment. "That's all you get. Now, lay off, and try to be reasonably sober, for a change." "But those kids! They'll squeal and giggle—" My God, he thought, how can they keep their voices so high spot you as a drunk. God knows where I could find any one else who'd believe that your hand shakes because of fever." "I know that you're looking out for my best interests, Carol. But one more drink wouldn't hurt me." She said wearily, but firmly, "I But forget that. If you're good—you'll cause trouble!" George, not a drop." get a drink afterwards." "I can't watch you the way a mother watches a child." The contemptuous reply sent what a head. How do you expect "Very well, Palit. Did I tempt "Afterwards?" me to face that gang of kids you?" An assistant curator of some collection in the zoo, a flustered you have to be." "Cold, suspicious, nasty—and reliable. It's inevitable when I "You and your lack of it! But "My subconscious doesn't know what it's talking about. All I don't agree with you. I remember once, when we were on the trail of a rogue elephant—" He told the story of the rogue cent." "Can't you forget for a moment "No. Not unless you forget that you're a drunk, and remember that you're a man. Not unless too?" tale, this time of a vicious Africa—" "Because you weren't there with me!" "—with hardly enough energy rhinoceros. His audience was "But it is my hope that I shall be able to see you again—" Screams of exultation, shrill as ever, small hands beating enthusiastically to indicate joy. Thank God that's over with, he when I think of having to face the platform. "Mr. George," she said, in a strangely affected voice, like that of the first dramatic teacher he you at the thought of your almost ruined his acting career. "Mr. George, I can't tell you The whispers were punctuated by giggles which made the entire George made us happy, children?" doing a good deed. Not a drop, laughing mood. He said, in his own language, "You're getting careless, Manto. You had no He hadn't expected this, and he repressed a groan. Mercifully, "Still, I thought I saw your own face taking on a bit of her expression too." winced once, then bore up. You can get used even to torture, he "Yes, dear?" "Aren't you going to call on Carolyn to act?" "Oh, yes, I was forgetting. Manto said tolerantly, "You're getting jittery, Palit. We've been away from home too long." "I am not jittery in the least. But I believe in taking due care." "What could possibly happen "Now, what are we going to act, children?" of losing all this." "Don't be silly, Palit. What chances am I taking?" how he felt. "They cannot possibly suspect. We have been all over the world, we have taken act it out, Mr. George, please, that's the way—ever closer, and now your muscles tighten for then, from the audience, an outburst of terrified screaming such as he had never heard. The bristles rose at the back of his neck, and his heart froze. "I'll be careful. After all, I shouldn't want us to lose these they are, how unafraid, how children. They're so exactly the ruffled, more terrifying than any he had seen in Africa. There they were, with the threat of death and destruction in their terror and helplessness on his handsome, manly, and bloodless face, heart unfrozen now and pounding fiercely, knees melting, hands— Hands clutching an elephant gun. The thought was like a director's an actor playing a scene rehearsed a thousand times, the gun leaped to his shoulder, and speech had died away. Across the platform from him were two great bodies, the bodies of lions, if corroded by some invisible

<question>:
Why is it hard for George to give autographs?

<options>:
A He does not want to give autographs
B He is a drunk.
C It isn't hard for him to give autographs.
D He shakes from a fever in Africa.

<answer>:

B