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Read the following passage. First came the rains, and then the silence that was worse than the rains. The village had grown used to noise, to the drumming on the tin roofs and the children splashing in the gutters, but the silence afterward was something no one had practiced for. Maren walked the length of the main road and counted seven houses with their doors open, as if the owners had stepped out for sugar and forgotten to come back. She did not knock. She had learned, in the three days since the water receded, that knocking on an open door felt more like trespassing than walking in. How does the author's choice to place the silent aftermath before Maren's walk affect the passage?

It makes the rains seem more destructive than the silence. It establishes an eerie calm before introducing the human cost, deepening the sense of loss. It confuses the reader about the order of events. It shows that Maren caused the flooding by leaving doors open.

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It establishes an eerie calm before introducing the human cost, deepening the sense of loss.

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