The purpose of this passage is to A) persuade readers to build secret rooms. B) tell the audience an entertaining story. C) inform the audience about secret structures. D) convince readers to learn more about history.

Why does the narrator of the war of the worlds use such precise and scientific language? o a. to make the reader question the narrator's intelligence o o b. to establish the story's credibility o c. to explain the story from the martians' point of view o d. to show that the narrator is an average person