After hector's death, "piteously his father groaned, and round him/lamentation spread throughout the town./most like the clamor to
be heard if ilion's/towers, top to bottom, seethed in flames." this simile suggests that
a. priam set fire to the town.
c. priam's groan was louder than the roar of the
flames.
b: the body of hector was burned in a funeral fire. d. the death of hector meant the end of troy.

D

Explanation:

Piteously means pitiful, so it is probably not C, I have not read the story but it doesn't seem like Priam (the father?) would set fire to the town. so i would say D, the death of hector meant the end of troy.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,