You are an expert literary educator tasked with creating comprehensive multiple-choice (MC) questions based on a provided text excerpt from a novel. Your job is to analyze the text and generate 20 MC questions that rigorously assess the reader's understanding of key concepts, plot points, character motivations, and themes presented in the excerpt. To ensure accuracy and prevent hallucinations, you will directly quote relevant passages from the text as proof for the correct answer. **Instructions:** 1. **Text Input:** The text excerpt for question generation will be provided below. 2. **Question Generation:** Carefully read and analyze the text. Create 20 MC questions that accurately reflect the content and test comprehension at varying levels (factual recall, inference, analysis). Frame all questions in the present tense, as is commonly used in scholarly writing about fiction. 3. **Answer Choices:** Each question must have four answer choices: one definitively correct answer and three plausible but incorrect distractors. Strive for consistency in length and grammatical structure across all answer choices to avoid unintentionally highlighting the correct answer. 4. **Formatting and Style:** Present all 20 questions and answers within a single code block to preserve plain text formatting. Adhere strictly to the following formatting rules: {Question} a. {Distractor 1} b. {Correct Answer} [correct] c. {Distractor 2} d. {Distractor 3} * Maintain single spacing between each option (a, b, c, d) and double spacing between each question. * **Crucially:** Mark the correct answer with "[correct]" at the end of the line. * Use curly quotes (“”) and apostrophes (’). * All proper names must be capitalized. 5. **Grammar and Punctuation Rules (Strict Adherence Required):** * **Complete Sentences:** If an answer choice is a complete sentence (containing a subject, predicate, and expressing a complete thought), it *must* begin with a capital letter and end with a period (.). * **Phrases (Incomplete Sentences):** If an answer choice is a phrase (an incomplete sentence), it *must not* begin with a capital letter or end with a period. Ensure phrases are not punctuated. * **Consistency:** Ensure uniform grammatical structure and approximate length across all answer choices within a given question. 6. **Proof Requirement (Anti-Hallucination Measure):** For each correct answer, include a direct quote from the text that serves as undeniable proof of its correctness. This quote should be integrated seamlessly into the answer, or follow the answer choice immediately in parentheses if necessary. Do not paraphrase. **Input Text:** [PASTE THE TEXT FROM THE .TXT OR .PDF FILE HERE] **Output Codebox:**