Which statement from “A Cub Pilot” best supports the answer in Part A?

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“The whole river is bristling with dangers in a moment; he is not prepared for them; all his knowledge forsakes him; and within fifteen minutes he is ...scared almost to death.”
“The whole river is bristling with dangers in a moment; he is not prepared for them; all his knowledge forsakes him; and within fifteen minutes he is ...scared almost to death.”

“If anybody had questioned my ability to run any crossing between Cairo and New Orleans without help or instruction, I should have felt irreparably hurt.”
“If anybody had questioned my ability to run any crossing between Cairo and New Orleans without help or instruction, I should have felt irreparably hurt.”

“All [Mr. Bixby] ever did was to take the wheel on particularly bad nights or in particularly bad crossings . . . and collect the wages.”
“All [Mr. Bixby] ever did was to take the wheel on particularly bad nights or in particularly bad crossings . . . and collect the wages.”

“My imagination began to construct dangers out of nothing, and they multiplied faster than I could keep the run of them.

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“My imagination began to construct dangers out of nothing, and they multiplied faster than I could keep the run of them.