Which choice provides the best evidence to support the answer to the previous question?

A. Extend his influence over the world's largest source of oil, the Persian Gulf.

B.“Any war we launch in Iraq will certainly be -- in part -- about oil. To deny that is
laughable."
C."if he were to acquire weapons of mass destruction, it might give him the
leverage he has long sought -- not to attack us...

D."whether it is seen to be only about oil will depend on how we behave before an
invasion and what we try to build once we're there"

Jackson is a very smart little boy he can count to twenty and is only two years old. complete, run on sentence or comma splice

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes