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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DANGEROUS QUARRY the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] the sprawling automatic brain's silver gauges and plastic toggles as proudly as if he had just personally gave birth to it. "This will simplify your job to the point of a pleasant diversion, Madison." "Are you going to keep paying me for staying with my little hobby?" I asked, suspiciously eyeing my chrome competitor. need investigate this accident. The circumstances obviously are such that no false claim could be filed. Of course, the brain will make an unfailing analysis of all the factors involved and clear the claim Investigate the Ozark village of Granite City. said anxiously. "It's too general. What does the nickel-brained machine mean by investigating a whole town? I don't know if it has crooked politics, abstracted from empirical data but before I planed out to Granite City that concerned business was that the whole village of Granite City must be accident-prone. I rejected that one almost immediately. While an accident-prone was in himself a statistical anomaly, the idea of a whole town of them gathered together stretched the fabric of reality to the point where even an invisible re-weaver couldn't help it. There was an explanation for the recent rise in the accident rate down granite from Granite City was being put into use all over the planet for any kind of automobile accident from Granite City. Granite City had been in an organized conspiracy to defraud Manhattan-Universal and its predecessors of hundreds upon hundreds of After so many profitable decades, Granite City wasn't going to take copter to Granite City. Something about downdrafts in the mountains. "Okay. It shouldn't be much of a walk in Granite City." like people to run automobiles on the streets of Granite City." his burned fingers. Catching the direction of my glance, he said, "Company is worth a few scalds, Mr. Madison." "But I mean it knows that there will be, say, a hundred fatal car crashes in a day. But it doesn't know if maybe ninety of them will be in Iowa and only ten in the rest of the country." "There's something to that. We call it probability, not luck." "Well, probability says that more accidents are going to occur in Granite City than anywhere else in the country, per capita." I shook my head at Thompson. "That's not probability. Theoretically, everybody has chanced to be an accident prone. Some other factor is operating. You are all deliberately faking these falls and fires—" "We're not," Thompson snapped. "Or else something is causing you to have this trouble. Maybe the whole town is a bunch of dope addicts. Maybe you grow your own mescalin or marijuana it's happened before." will let us up our rates for this town. Probably beyond the capacity of these people, I'm afraid." "That would be a real tragedy, Mr. Madison. Insurance is vital to this town. Nobody could survive a year here without insurance. People pay me for their premiums before they pay their grocery bills." "That doesn't have anything to do with it. Nobody in Granite City owns I couldn't see any in the way they sliced the granite out of the The low, level snarl had come from a burly character in a syn-leather jacket and narrow-brimmed Stetson. "The reason you have so many accidents here," I said frankly. "I'm from the insurance company. Name's Madison." "Yeah, I know." I had supposed he would. "I mean the way you work it. No system to it. No stratification, no plateau work..." "Listen, Madison, don't talk about what you don't know anything about. The stuff in these walls isn't just rock it isn't even plain granite. Granite City exports some of the finest grade of the stone in the world. And it's used all over the world. We aren't just a bunch different way of getting out every piece of stone." "It's too bad." "What's too bad?" "That you chose the wrong way so often," I said. Kelvin breathed a virile grade of tobacco into my face. "Listen, Madison, we have been working this quarry for generations, sometimes more of us working than other times. Today most of us are working getting the stone out. That's the way we like it. We don't want any "If this quarry has anything to do with defrauding Manhattan-Universal, More and more, I was coming to believe that Granite City wasn't a job for an investigative adjuster like myself but a psychological adjuster. society is criminal, distorted, you can't isolate the flaw. The whole village was meat for a sociologist let him figure out why otherwise decent citizens felt secure in conspiracy to defraud an honored the old professor turned on his stool, his face pale and his eyes sad and resigned. "I doubt very much if either of us will be leaving, Mr. Madison," he said. "Now." I took my beer and the professor his coffee over to the single booth. "I am Doctor Arnold Parnell of Duke University," the professor said. "I they refuse to trust to leave this place. They think they can't let me go." He's been the only one in or out of Granite City for five months." granite itself? How do they ship it out?" "It's an artificial demand product, like diamonds," Professor Parnell thought of just walking out?" "Fifty miles down a steep mountain road? I'm an old man, Mr. Madison, and I've gotten even older since I came to Granite City." me the big query: Why are the good people of Granite City doing this to are perpetrating on Manhattan-Universal?" "I know nothing of their ethical standards," Parnell said, "but I do subhuman !" "I admit I have met likelier groups of human beings in my time." "No, understand me. These people are literally subhuman—they are inferior to other human beings." "Look, I know the Klan is a growing organization but I can't go along with you." "Madison, understand me, I insist. Ethnologically speaking, it is well known that certain tribes suffer certain deficiencies due to diet, climate, et cetera. Some can't run, sing, use mathematics. The people of Granite City have the most unusual deficency on record, I admit. of a few recorded cases of supermen, but we have some, a trace. Granite that you and I and the rest of the world have!" people can't suffer very much from their lack of what you call psi ability." "I tell you they do," he said hoarsely. "We never realize it but we all have some power of precognition. If we didn't, we would have a hundred accidents a day—just as these people do . They can't foresee the "They don't want the world to know why they are psionically granite heavy concentration and particular pattern of the radioactive radiation in its matrix is responsible for both inhibiting the genes that transmit psi powers from generation to generation and affecting those abilities in the present generation. A kind of psionic sterility." "How do you know this?" "We haven't the time for all that. But think about it. What else could it be? It's that granite that they are shipping all over the To the people of Granite City that means ruining their only industry, putting them all out of work. They are used to this psionic sterility they don't see anything so bad about it. Besides, like everybody else, they have some doubts that there really are such things as telepathy and the rest to be affected." infallible—like the Pope or the President or Board Chairman of

<question>:
According to Dr. Parnell, can the same fate affecting Granite City affect other places around the world?

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A Yes, because the granite being shipped to other places out of Granite City is what is causing the problems for the people.
B No, because the people of Granite City are born with the mental problems that are plaguing them and cannot spread them.
C Yes, because there are other places in the world exporting this same type of granite.
D Yes, because Madison is already experiencing the same mental problems the people are having.

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A