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Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions. Anand wanted to leave Delhi and go to Bangalore by train. He saw that the train was filled with passengers. Since there was no empty place in the carriage for him, he thought of a plan. He bought a rubber snake from a vendor at the station and threw it in the carriage. All the passengers got scared of the snake and with shouts of fright and screams of help, they ran out of the carriage. Now. Anand boarded the carriage and slept in the train. After a few hours, he woke up to find that the train had left Delhi, leaving this carriage behind, since there was a snake scare. Now, Anand was in deep trouble. Which part of speech is denoted by the phrase "snake scare" in the second last line of the passage?

A) preposition      

B) adverb         

C) noun               

D) adjective