What does the last stanza show about the father?
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Correct answer: A. The poet is sure of his father's death.
Explanation
The stillness and cold, stiff fingers leave the speaker certain.
Note: Passage I is Andrew Motion's 'Are You There?', which is copyrighted and not reproduced. The speaker and his father push the furniture to the walls to play the blindfold newspaper-swatting game 'Are you there, Moriarty?'. As the speaker raises his rolled-up Times to strike, he realises from his father's stillness and cold, stiff fingers that his father has died.
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