Question

flora had serious ____ the squirrel was even normal. relying doubts clumsy awkward ancient

Explanation:

We need to find a word that fits grammatically and semantically in the sentence "Flora had serious ____ the squirrel was even normal." Let's analyze each option:

• "relying" is a verb form (present participle) and doesn't fit here as we need a noun or a word that makes sense with "serious".
• "doubts" is a noun, and the phrase "had serious doubts" is common, and "doubts that..." (or in this case the clause "the squirrel was even normal" following) makes sense as expressing uncertainty about whether the squirrel was normal.
• "clumsy" is an adjective, it can't follow "serious" in this context.
• "awkward" is an adjective, not suitable here.
• "ancient" is an adjective, doesn't fit.

So "doubts" is the correct choice.

Answer:

B. doubts (assuming the options are labeled with the second option as B, but based on the given words, the correct word is "doubts")