Read the following stanzas and answer the question by choosing the correct options:

Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story's told.

Their dying fire in need of logs,
But the first one held hers back,
For, of the faces round the fire,
She noticed one was black.

The next man looking 'cross the way
Saw one not of his church,
And could not bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.

The woman does not put her log into the fire deliberately because of _____.

racial discrimination

The correct answer is Option (1) → racial discrimination
Explanation:
The stanza mentions that the woman noticed one of the faces around the fire was black, and as a result, she held back her stick of wood. This action reflects racial discrimination, as she refuses to contribute to the fire because of the race of one of the individuals present.