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 bitterness of respect—and justice! The Tepoktan student, whose blue robe in George Kinton's opinion clashed with the dull purple of his scales, twiddled a three-clawed hand for attention. think to watch him, they tell me ... and quite rightly, I think—" "Get on with it, Klaft! Please!" know, because of Dr. Chuxolkhee's metal pin. He—he stole a speech, his name came out more like "Chortch." Questions like this had been Barred off as they were from venturing into space, the highly civilized Tepoktans constantly displayed the curiosity of dreamers in matters related to Kinton answered in their language, race have not yet encountered any beings capable of estimating humanoid were it not for the Kinton looked from him to the messenger, noticing for the first Tepoktan was slightly under time that the latter was an under-officer Kinton's height of five-feet-ten, elongated snouts and pointed, sharp-toothed jaws. The average not expecting to need fire weapons." of police. He shook his head distractedly. It appeared years. The Tepoktans had been still left Kinton with a feeling of misproportion. He should be used to it after ten years, he thought, but even thinking well of Terrans, but now— natural. "I sympathize with your curiosity," he added. "It is a marvel He did not worry about his though he was the first stellar But they were more civilized Kinton remained conscious of the than that wanton murderer, he unable to offer the Tepoktans any visitor in their recorded history, he believed, no Terran could teach their experts anything. time. he reaches—" He broke off at the word "spaceship" but he noticed a reserved expression on Klaft's pointed face. His aide had probably he realize that two armed Tepoktans The aide reached Kinton and bent to hiss and cluck into the latter's ear in what he presumably considered an undertone. One was a constable but the other he recognized for an officer follow Klaft's progress. These, he knew, were loaded My presence is requested in case the crew are of my own planet." [104] with an explosive worthy of respect on any planet he had heard of. To protect him, he wondered. reached the surface of Tepokt. an honor. They would hardly learn anything from him directly that was Tepoktan scientists, historians, him?" demanded Kinton, his tone sharp with the worry he endeavored to control. "He has that spear, I suppose but he is only to orange. He grimaced and clicked his showy teeth uncomfortably. "Perhaps they thought you come out of curiosity." Kinton smiled at his aide's was a Terran, one of his own kind. Maybe they really didn't want to risk hurting his feelings, but that was only part of it. thought. Maybe he shouldn't stand in the way of their biologists and surgeons. But he'd rather be buried, even if that left them with only what he could tell them about the human body. To help himself forget the rather preoccupied manner in which some of the Tepoktan scientists occasionally eyed him, he staff of scientists, students, and workers assigned to the institute organized about the person of Kinton. Tepokt were underdeveloped. In from the inability to break out into interplanetary space. Kinton had been inexplicably Tepoktans had told Kinton, "or Kinton turned away from the of Tepokt's sun upon the hull of the spaceship they had also built for him. Perhaps ... would it be fair to encourage the newcomer to try it. The Tepoktans supposed to watch over a single individual on the surface. Like their brothers on Terra, the native and Kinton often told them jokingly that he felt no urge to risk a physical encounter with his own personal Eye. and Kinton remembered Kinton had stepped forward this part of the planet twinkled back at him, and he knew that each was being scrutinized by some amateur or professional He glanced back at the Tepoktans ship. "But he'll only get himself killed a Tepoktan proverb often applied destroy the ship! Or if some miracle gets him through, that's worse! He's nothing to turn loose on a civilized colony again." for a long moment. The Tepoktans and as he realized that keeping Birken here would also expose a highly cultured people to an unscrupulous criminal who had already committed murder the very Kinton observed, however, the motionless Tepoktans with a derisive sneer. "They don't look too eager to me," he taunted. Kinton growled a Tepoktan expression have a doctor rating as an expert in human physiology. The survivor—only the meaning of which one occupant of the he had deduced after hearing it startled changes in the carefully blank looks of his escort. The with a hissing cry. By the time Kinton's aging muscles obeyed his impulse to Kinton found himself looking hoping for! The spaceman had been cleaned up and bandaged by the Kinton ran at the Tepoktans, native medicos. Kinton saw that that his suspicions concerning Birken had been only too accurate. Why was it one like him who George," said the plump Tepoktan doctor who appeared to be in charge. Kinton could not remember him, but everyone on the planet addressed the Terran by the sound they fondly thought to be his first name. "This is Doctor Chuxolkhee," murmured Klaft. Kinton made the accepted gesture close enough for that, and wondered if he was afraid of his treated him very expertly." Chuxolkhee ruffled the scales around his neck with pleasure. Kinton, without exactly He broke off at the sound from the patient. "A Terran!" mumbled the injured man. He shook his head dazedly, for a curse," he remarked, quoting The man stared curiously. Kinton realized that his own language sputtered clumsily from "A little over," confirmed Kinton. "It's extremely unusual that anything gets through to the surface, let alone a spaceship. What happened to you?" the second planet," Kinton told him. "You mean there are new Terran colonies?" "All right!" yielded Kinton, surprised at the harshness of his own voice. "Just tell him not to bring around any sketches of the they'd be creepin' around this planet too." "How did you happen to do gaze. Kinton was struck with sudden doubt. The outposts of civilization were followed by less rule—prisons, for instance. He resolved to be wary of the visitor. "Ya might say I was explorin'," others with him stood attentively about. He questioned the doctor briefly serious. "They'll fix you up," he assured the spaceman. "They're quite good at it, even if the sight of one does make you think a we can only guess what he did among my own ... among Terrans. realized. "Possibly," grunted Kinton wrily. "We, too, have criminals," said the aide, as gently as was possible On the other hand, the chance to see and talk with one of his own kind drew him like a magnet to the hospital. The doctors operated upon in his clicking language. only way he could repay the Tepoktans visage, at the strange eyes regarding him sympathetically from beneath the sloping, purple-scaled forehead. they had known before Kinton Birken's leg, inserting a metal learn all Kinton could tell him about the planet, Tepokt. About himself, he was remarkably reticent. Kinton worried about this. "I think we should not expect too much of this Terran," he warned Klaft uneasily. "You, too, have citizens who do not always obey, your laws, who sometimes ... that is—" "Who are born to die under Klaft, as if to ease the concern plain on Kinton's face. "In other words, criminals. You suspect this Albirken is such a one, Kinton unhappily. "He will Tepokt's gravity while fleeing

<question>:
Which of the following are most true about how the Tepoktans regard Kinton?

<options>:
A They are afraid of him.
B They treat him like one of their own.
C They treat him with respect.
D They treat him like an alien.

<answer>:

C