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Matilda

6 January, 01:49

Based on what readers learn from the excerpt from "The Interlopers," Why didn't the two neighbors shoot one another?

"The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilication cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour."

Question 10 options:

Their powder was wet, so they decided to duel with blades.

They couldn't see through the rain storm.

Because of their code of honor.

Ulrich von Gradwitz couldn't pull the trigger on Georg because Georg, or Georgette (her real name), was his girlfriend in high school.