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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breathless messenger as Kinton ILLUSTRATED BY EMSH The Dome of Eyes made it almost impossible for BY H. B. FYFE Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt. For those who did land there, there was no returning—only Kinton repeated his question, Kinton smiled wrily, and ran put to him often during the ten years since his rocket had hurtled through the meteorite belt and down to the surface of Tepokt, leaving him the only survivor. Barred off as they were from venturing into space, the the universe. Because of the veil of meteorites and satellite fragments whirling about their that way?" asked Kinton, Kinton found himself looking Kinton looked from him to the Birken had been only too accurate. Why was it one like him who got through? he asked himself still left Kinton with a feeling to a rage by the killing, Kinton told himself, he would not have Kinton remained conscious of the have proved mathematically Before Kinton had formed his as Kinton's chief aide, hurried moment later, Kinton saw the of. To protect him, he wondered. Or to get Birken? The pilot headed the craft Kinton hesitated. Those in the of Kinton's limited number of about Birken. "He has been seen on the road passing the dam," Klaft reported soberly after having been called to the pilot's compartment. "He For ten years, Kinton had Kinton settled back in the seat stared silently at the partition 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 such remonstrances. He estimated 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. about the ship!" Kinton muttered, all right. Probably scared the colonial authorities will trail him right down through the Dome of Eyes. Wonder what he did?" He caught himself and looked completed to Kinton's design. Kinton, disturbed, tried to remember whether he had spoken in Terran or Tepoktan. Would Birken listen if he tried reasoning, he asked himself. they had proved the unpredictability of openings through the shifting Dome of Eyes— An exclamation from the constable approaching, Kinton saw a halted space. Kinton had been inexplicably lucky to have reached the surface even in a battered hulk. The shell of meteorites was at least a hundred miles thick and constantly shifting. "We do not know if they have always been meteorites," the Tepoktans had told Kinton, "or a destroyed satellite 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 Kinton turned away from the "Go down!" Kinton ordered. but our observers yards from the spaceship. 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 the Dome of Eyes, after a myth in which each tiny satellite bright enough to be visible was called the ever-shifting lights "Sorry, Kinton," he shouted kept walking toward the ship. [112] and Kinton often told and Kinton remembered 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 back at him, and he knew that Kinton couldn't just grab him—bad leg or not, he could probably break the older man in two. He glanced back at the Tepoktans each was being scrutinized by some amateur or professional back at him. Klaft, who had descended first, He turned again to Birken, who still retreated toward the ship. "But he'll only get himself killed leaving the pilot to bring up the [106] by the disgruntled scientists to the Dome of Eyes. Kinton observed, however, that his aide also stared upward destroy the ship! Or 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 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 vehicle awaiting Kinton. Klaft The crash had been several hundred miles away, but someone had thought of the hospital in he had deduced after hearing it wreck, alive or dead, had He whirled to run toward the helicopter. Hardly had he taken used by the dam workers. been discovered—had accordingly with a hissing cry. By the time Kinton's aging muscles obeyed his impulse to sidestep, the spear had already hurtled past. It had missed him by an error of over six feet. [113] He felt his face flushing with sudden anger. Birken was running as best he could toward the spaceship, and had covered nearly party," he muttered. "A Terran!" mumbled the injured man. was constructed so that the butt rested against the chest with the sighting loops before the eyes. sleep, his mouth was thin and hard. "Thrown across the controls after his belt broke loose?" Kinton above head height, to prevent the handler's catching the blast. The circles of the sights 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 Kinton could not remember own impending action. Kinton made the accepted gesture 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 rear, noticed Kinton's pause. 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 on the bottom rung of the ladder, and skittered away past one fin of the ship before exploding. Two others burst against the hull, scattering metal fragments, and another puffed on the upright of the ladder just above Birken's head. The spaceman was blown back from the ladder. He balanced on , thought Kinton. the intervening ground to bend over Birken. "He is dead," said Klaft when surface, let alone a spaceship. What happened to you?" Birken's stare was suspicious. see to him, please?" Kinton "Then you ain't heard about if some miracle gets him the second planet," Kinton told through, that's worse! He's "All right!" yielded Kinton, He climbed into the helicopter and slumped into his seat. Presently, he was aware of Klaft edging seconds before dropping his gaze. Kinton was struck with into the seat across the aisle. Birken replied at last. "That's why I come alone. Didn't want nobody else hurt if "What? Why ... why ... he Kinton realized guiltily that would have destroyed the ship you worked so hard to build. There is no safe path through the Dome of Eyes." "No predictable path," Klaft corrected. "But what then? We He questioned the doctor briefly and relayed the information that Birken's leg was broken but that the other injuries were not serious. For the next three weeks, Kinton "Possibly," grunted Kinton Birken's leg, inserting a metal rod inside the bone by a method they had known before Kinton Kinton. "I ... it's just—" Birken seemed eager to learn all Kinton could tell him reticent. Kinton worried Kinton unhappily. "He will To himself, he wished he had not told Birken about the spaceship. He didn't think the man exactly believed his explanation

<question>:
What would have most likely happened if Kinton had let Birken take the spaceship?

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A Klaft would have shot it down with a rocket.
B Birken would have decided to stay with Kinton.
C Birken would have escaped.
D Birken would have crashed into the Dome of Eyes.

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D