Question

the serbs drove out the women and butchered the men, according to numerous eyewitness accounts, burying most of the bodies in mass graves. officially, as many as 8,000 men from srebrenica are still listed as missing. zina hasanovic is one of the few women to know exactly what happened to her husband. . . . as serb bullets swept the tightly packed ranks of muslim prisoners, haris her husband fell on top of mevludin oric, his first cousin and best friend. mevludin lay there for hours, covered by bodies and blood, while the serbs finished off the wounded. then he escaped to tell zina what had happened. how did mevludin escape execution? he escaped before the serbs arrived. he was saved by a friendly serb. he was hidden by zina hasanovic. he pretended to be dead.

Explanation:

From the text: "Mevludin lay there for hours, covered by bodies and blood, while the Serbs finished off the wounded." This shows he pretended to be dead (by lying still under bodies and blood) to escape execution. The other options don't match: he didn't escape before Serbs arrived, wasn't saved by a friendly Serb or hidden by Zina Hasanovic.

Answer:

D. He pretended to be dead.