Read the excerpt from iqbal. it was a special morning. when foreign customers arrived, hussain khan couldn't bully us too badly in their presence. he had to convince them that we were treated well. "these are my apprentices," he would say, distributing affectionate pats left and right. "here they learn an honest profession that will assure them a better future, one without hunger and poverty. they're like my own family." in this excerpt, the author uses words to characterize hussain khan as a man who

the answer is c. is dishonest to foreign customers.

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.