Using roots as clues, what does autograph mean in the following sentence?

the governor could not give the child an autograph because no one had a pen.

personal drive
special leadership
personal recommendation
* own writing

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”