It is exclamation point because it is an abrupt remark or like a suprise
The background of the missionaries in these chapters is not explicitly explained. Instead, it can be inferred based on parallel plot. A parallel plot is a one more story line that seem to have nothing in common with the lead story line, but it is usually contains additional information or background of an event or a character which makes a story be more deep.
<span>Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain?—O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
(Hamlet, act IV, scene IV)</span>
The correct answer is this one: "1)They are lovers who are meeting in secret." The excerpt from the poem "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth, can be determined about the speaker and the singing solitary reaper is that t<span>hey are lovers who are meeting in secret because of some circumstance.</span>