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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Century did to bad enough." "But Despite his sudden irrational anger toward her, Maitland tried to stick There was a thump. Maitland stirred, came half awake, and opened his of the full Moon. He guessed sleepily that it was about three o'clock. What had he heard? He had a definite impression that the sound had come from within the room. It had sounded like someone stumbling into a "Birth control," Maitland scoffed. "How do you make it work—secret Something moved in the darkness on the other side of the room. Maitland police?" "No. Education. Each of us has the right to two children, and we two are the best children we could possibly produce...." She broke off, looking a little self-conscious. "You understand, what I have been saying applies to most cherish that right so much that we make every effort to see that those them." "Even," he said, "granting that you have solved the population problem, Shock contracted Maitland's diaphragm and spread through his body. His breathing quickened. Now he remembered what had happened during of only two hundred thousand miles?" His hands were trembling as he stopped. She shrugged her shapely shoulders. "Go into the past—yes! But go out there? I still cannot see why." killed the beast when he was a young man. He used a spear. And time traveling is the greatest adventure there is. At least, that is the way I feel. Listen, Bob." She laid a hand on his arm. "You grew up in "Because this is the Age of Man the door slid aside and disappeared. Maitland glanced in at Maitland stared at her, his face blank. His mind had just manufactured Maitland looked up at the girl, who was regarding him silently with As they came closer, he saw that both of them had dark uniform suntans and showed striking muscular development, like persons who had trained have held the number at that." sandals, stood across the threshold looking in at him. Maitland stood The fellow looked about forty-five. The first details Maitland noticed "Now, these are the rules. You'll be here for about a week. You'll have three meals a day, served in this room. You will not be allowed to leave it except when accompanied by myself. You will not be harmed in any way, provided you cooperate. And you can forget the silly idea that "Are you crazy?" Maitland asked quietly. "Do you realize that at this your tests to." "Lie down," Swarts said. When Maitland hesitated, Swarts added, "What's the idea?" Maitland asked. "What is all this?" Maitland stood there for a moment, deliberately relaxing his tensed If Swarts was irritated, he didn't show it. "That was the first test," Maitland shook his head stubbornly. He moved so fast that Maitland couldn't block the blow. It was to the solar plexus, just hard enough to double him up, fighting for breath. He felt an arm under his back, another behind his knees. Then he was on So—Maitland thought—Swarts could record changes in his skin potential, heartbeat, and blood pressure: the involuntary responses of the body to stimuli. The question was, what were the stimuli to be? "Your name," said Swarts, "is Robert Lee Maitland. You are thirty-four "You seem to know everything about me," Maitland said defiantly, "I do not know everything about you—yet. And I'm testing the Something eager leaped in Maitland's breast at the abrupt question, and didn't I? Maitland, I brought you here because you're a man who wants why ." expectancy. Maitland sighed and said, "Hello," then glanced down There were three questions for which he required answers before he Maitland kept track of them all in their majestic paths through the constellations, but Venus was his favorite. Time and time again he alter ego of morning star. Venus clenched, forgetting to breathe. Last night Venus hadn't been there. Just now! He realized the truth in that moment. Later, when that jewel of a planet had set and the stars were out, they purported to be. Only one question of importance remained: What year was this? and returned. Surely, a civilization that had developed time travel could reach the stars! And he After a while Maitland smiled to himself and went back to bed. consonant. "Miss," he asked, watching her face intently, "what year is this?" Swarts came half an hour later, and Maitland began his planned offensive. "What year is this?" Swarts' steely eyes locked with his. "You know what the date is," he stated. "No, I don't. Not since yesterday." Venus was a morning star before you brought me here. Now it's an evening star." "Never mind that. Come." Wordlessly, Maitland climbed to his feet, preceded Swarts to the laboratory, lay down and allowed him to fasten the straps and attach test—Maitland began the job of integrating "csc 3 x dx" in his head. It was a calculation which required great concentration and frequent "What year is this?" Maitland asked in a conversational tone. of a binocular microscope over Maitland's head, so that the lenses at eyes. He attached tiny clamps to Maitland's eyelashes. blink, but the springs are too strong for you to hold your eyelids down against the tension." He inserted button earphones into Maitland's ears— twelve-gauge shotgun. The man shouted, "Now I've got you, you wife-stealer!" He swung the shotgun around and pulled the trigger. powder—then blackness. With a deliberate effort, Maitland unclenched his fists and tried to Maitland gritted his teeth and fought to use his brain more. He brooded over the damnable stupidity and short-sightedness of Swarts in standing by his silly rules and not telling him about this There was blood hammering in Maitland's temples. His face felt hot and eyes and Swarts was standing over him, white-lipped. Maitland swore at starting to ache from the effort of blinking. "What year is this?" he asked. Maitland's smile became a grin. a while later. "Honestly. Maitland, I'm working against a time limit. Maitland considered a moment, then nodded. Swarts lowered the projector one leg. After a while he noticed that he was whistling the same theme over and over: a minute's thought identified it as that exuberant mounting phrase which recurs in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. of what I want from him. I want to travel in time, go back to your 20th Century. And I wanted to talk with you, and he would not let me." She laughed again, hands on her rounded hips. "I have never seen him so Maitland urged her into the chair and sat down on the edge of the bed. you're from another time!" His fear that she would be offended proved to be completely unjustified. She merely laughed and said, "There has been much history since 1950. Five hundred years ago, Europe was overrun by it was founded on the slaughter of one and a half billion human beings. That went into the history books as the War of Annihilation." "So many? How?" raising food or manufacturing things. It could never have been done, either, before the population was—reduced to three hundred million." "Rebellion?" "No. Intermarriage. Racial blending. There was a psychology of guilt behind it. So huge a crime eventually required a proportionate "Inter-what?" "Have men visited the stars?" on Mars and Venus, and how long does it take to get to those places?" He waited, expectantly silent, but she only looked puzzled. "I don't understand. Mars? What are Mars?" After several seconds, Maitland swallowed. Something seemed to be the that right?" She nodded apprehensively. "I have never heard of it being done."

<question>:
How many times was Maitland taken into the testing room during the story?

<options>:
A Once
B Once, and then another session of testing within his own personal room
C Never
D Twice

<answer>:

D