The correct answer is D) the amputation of the lieutenant's arm.
This passage from “An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane foreshadows the climactic event of the amputation of the lieutenant's arm.
Stephen Crane wrote the short story "An Episode of War" is the history of a lieutenant that is shot in the arm during the war. He was with his soldiers when all of a sudden he felt the pain in his arm and sees the blood. This is a sad short story that has its climactic moment when the author writes "He wore the look of one knows he is the victim of a terrible disease and understands his helplessness… he held his right wrist tenderly in his left hand as if the wounded arm was made of very brittle glass." He is referring to the amputation of the lieutenant's arm.
The other options of the question were A) the loss of the battle, B) the loss of the lieutenant's life, and C) the lieutenant's illness at the field hospital.
