Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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The Tepoktan student, whose Kinton repeated his question, wondering about the group group. "Then you can give us no precise Questions like this had been put to him often during the ten curious to see some of Tepokt. Tepokt, leaving him the only survivor. highly civilized Tepoktans constantly sign of emphatic disagreement. "Albirken," he said, "was soon "Why did he say he was traveling that way?" asked Kinton, "As I believe I mentioned in "He did not say," answered Klaft expressionlessly. "Taking Tepoktan was slightly under that his suspicions concerning Birken had been only too accurate. Why was it one like him who got through? he asked himself years. The Tepoktans had been thinking well of Terrans, but now— He did not worry about his or the big teeth seemed more natural. "I sympathize with your curiosity," unable to offer the Tepoktans any question. Before Kinton had formed his reached a conclusion similar chamber parted. Klaft, the Tepoktan to his own. a very short while in advance." he realize that two armed Tepoktans to fit Tepoktan claws. The constable, reached the surface of Tepokt. of. To protect him, he wondered. Or to get Birken? The pilot headed the craft back toward Kinton's town in view, they received a radio message about Birken. "He has been seen on the road passing the dam," Klaft reported Tepoktan scientists, historians, crumb of information Kinton knowingly had to offer—and some he thought he had forgotten. that was basically like those Kinton remembered using behind the pilot. In other words, he thought, he was responsible for Birken, who was a Terran, one of his own kind. Maybe they really didn't to look out the window as he recalled the shadow that underlay of Tepokt. The time They were leaving it up to him to handle what they considered He wondered what to do. He had no actual faith in the idea that Birken was delirious, or acting under any influence but that of a criminally self-centered nature. "I shouldn't and die. Whose wishes would body. To help himself forget the Maybe he was wrong, he which some of the Tepoktan scientists to remember whether he had spoken in Terran or Tepoktan. Would Birken listen if he tried reasoning, he asked himself. Maybe if he showed the man how he reflected. They hadn't needed that for themselves. In some ways, compared to [105] Tepokt were underdeveloped. In they had proved the unpredictability was smaller and had different standards of luxury. In the second, a certain lack of drive resulted from the inability to constantly shifting. "We do not know if they have always been meteorites," the Tepoktans had told Kinton, "or plain toward the gleaming hull. As they passed the man below, Birken looked up. He continued to limp along at a brisk pace with the aid of what looked have proved mathematically that no direct path through of Tepokt's sun upon the hull of them may be predicted more than By the time his passengers had alighted, however, Birken had drawn level with them, about fifty feet away. "Birken!" shouted Kinton. "Where do you think you're going?" Seeing that no one ran after him, Birken slowed his pace, but kept walking toward the ship. to try it. The Tepoktans [112] with no noticeable tone of regret. "I figure I better travel on for my health." "It's not so damn healthy up up? Every one was struck and exploded." Birken showed no more change of expression than if the other had commented on the weather. Kinton had stepped forward six or eight paces, irritated despite his anxiety at the way Birken persisted in drifting before him. of Tepokt was passing by He glanced back at the Tepoktans some of which could already be seen. These could easily be mistaken for stars or the other five their party," he muttered. He turned again to Birken, who still retreated toward the ship. "But he'll only get himself for a curse," he remarked, quoting a Tepoktan proverb often applied [106] A twinge of shame tugged down the corners of his mouth as he realized that keeping Birken here would also expose a highly cultured people to an unscrupulous for a long moment. The Tepoktans committed murder the very first time he had been crossed. "Birken!" he shouted. "For the last time! Do you want me to send them to drag you back here?" Birken stopped at that. He regarded the motionless Tepoktans with a derisive sneer. Kinton growled a Tepoktan expression the meaning of which he had deduced after hearing it By the time Kinton's aging muscles obeyed his impulse to [113] He felt his face flushing with sudden anger. Birken was running as best he could toward the spaceship, and had covered nearly such remonstrances. He estimated George," said the plump Tepoktan Or was it the fright at having a spear thrown at him? He decided that Birken had not come close enough for that, and wondered if he was afraid of his own impending action. It wasn't fair, he complained but that was only part of it. to himself. The poor slob only then prevail? Then, abruptly, his lips tightened to a thin line. The sights steadied on Birken as the latter approached the foot of the ladder Kinton, without exactly seeing each, was aware of the general lines of flight diverging gradually to bracket the figure of Birken. One struck the ground beside the man just as he set one foot his private affair. Birken's head. The spaceman was blown back from the ladder. He balanced on for a few breaths, then seemed to relax. "Al Birken," he introduced himself laconically. "Ten years?" "A little over," confirmed Kinton. over Birken. "He is dead," said Klaft when the constable straightened up What happened to you?" Birken's stare was suspicious. "Then you ain't heard about the new colonies? Naw—you the intervening ground to bend "Well?" "It would be very instructive—that desirable developments as a general rule—prisons, for instance. He resolved to be wary of the visitor. "Ya might say I was explorin'," Birken replied at last. "That's why I come alone. Didn't want nobody else hurt if "No predictable path," Klaft corrected. "But what then? We would have built you another He questioned the doctor briefly and relayed the information that Birken's leg was broken but that the other injuries were not serious. Should he have a chance to go back and commit more crimes?" "I understand, George, the own town nearly every day. He "Possibly," grunted Kinton wrily. only way he could repay the Tepoktans "We, too, have criminals," said On the other hand, the chance to see and talk with one of his own kind drew him like a magnet felt that he should not neglect upon themselves." Birken's leg, inserting a metal rod inside the bone by a method they had known before Kinton "No, I suppose not," sighed described it. The new arrival expected to be able to walk, with "It's just that now I'm lonely the pin would have to be removed after the bone had healed. Meanwhile, Birken seemed eager to learn all Kinton could tell him ... again," he said. Transcriber's Note: about the planet, Tepokt. care, almost any day about this. "I think we should not expect too much of this Terran," he Klaft, as if to ease the concern plain on Kinton's face. "In other words, criminals. You suspect this Albirken is such a one, George?" Tepokt's gravity while fleeing To himself, he wished he had not told Birken about the spaceship. He didn't think the man exactly believed his explanation of why there was no use taking

<question>:
How can the quoted Tepoktan proverb apply to the story?

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A It does not apply to the story.
B It only applies to the Dome of Eyes.
C It can apply to Kinton's fame and loneliness.
D It can apply to Birken's choices.

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C