Which of these sentences might best serve as a topic sentence of a paragraph telling how to write a book report?

You didn't really provide enough information, but I'll help you out anyway. You should always start a book report by stating the book title, name of author, and your opinion in the first sentence. So you could say (book name) by (author name) was a (good adjective/bad adjective) book.

Hope that helps :)

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

the correct answer can either be a or b because it could be both but you should probally choose b