Answer:
c.) The barn
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Explanation:
"Cinder-Maid" is the European adaptation of the fairytale "Cinderella". The story revolves around the life of a young girl who was forced to live a life of misery by her step-mother but then ends up becoming the wife of a prince.
While the step-mother and her two daughters live in the nobleman's house with Cinder-Maid's father, the little girl was made to live in the barn, "a small, rickety shack [. . .] with hens and goats". And considering the words 'gloomy, lonely and shabby', it could only refer to the living condition/ space, the barn where Cinder-Maid live.
Thus, the correct answer is option c.
