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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send the intruder on his way. Keech and the little people just stood by and grinned all the while. treasures most. A one-time Air Force officer, he has turned to fantasy in his lighter moments, to bring us such brightly sparkling little gems as this. houlihan's equation that the small people with their quick eyes and clever fingers could spot all sorts of minute shortcomings by ... Walt Sheldon The working model and the fact hearing the old tongue and talking of the old things every day, and each other to hush, be quiet, and the soft breeze stirring them up again. I had known precisely such had it back soon enough—or else and combustion." "Thank you, Mr. Houlihan," said Keech. All his people had gathered in a loose circle, as though attending a rite. They were all looking at me quietly. "Mr. Houlihan," said Keech, "you will not be forgotten by the leprechauns. If we ever meet again, work out an equation to give the upon another world perchance, eager and ready." "Thank you," I said. "And now, Mr. Houlihan," said Keech, "I'll see that a quantity of gold is delivered to your rooms tonight, become convinced they could along with my story. When you "Well," said Keech in surprise, and in some awe, too, "well, now, musha Lord help us! 'Tis the first time I ever heard such a speech from a mortal." He turned to his people. "We'll have three cheers now, do you hear, for Mr. Houlihan—friend of the little people as long as he shall live!" And they cheered. And little tears crept into the corners of some of and structure— Oh, there is so slowly and chuckled to myself at equations sits strangely, you might say, upon the tongue of a man named Kevin Francis Houlihan. little people. Surely it was not every mortal who could accomplish that. I had given them the wrong equation, engaged in vital research at the center. Anyway, I heard these little But I am, after all, a scientist. If I had not been a specialist in my field in eerily mysterious fashion with a chorus of small voices. I thought at first it might be children at play, but then at the time I was a bit absent-minded. I tiptoed to the edge noises in the park. They sounded his working model. It would go down in scientific I saw? Not children, but a group of little people, hard at work. There was a leader, an older one literature now, I suppose, as Houlihan's with a crank face. He was beating branches. And what do you suppose Equation, and that was honor "Over here, now! All right, bring leprechauns are most clever in matters of this sort and he would have little people. I was more than startled by it, too. I had not seen little people in—oh, close to thirty years. I had seen them first as a boy of eight, and then, very briefly again, on my tenth birthday. And I had include the second as a fortunate byproduct it is a most happy accident. For if I had shown the little people how to make a spaceship they made it a burden in some way. would have left our world. And and shiny and upright and a little over five feet in height. "Come along now, people!" said this crotchety one, looking straight Come without the little people here for us to believe in every now and likely to blow ourselves to Kingdom know he can't see nor hear us!" Oh, it was good to hear the rich more then? mind that man standin' there! You at me. "Stop starin' and get to and under all conditions of friction little souls. They began to scurry behind the trees and bushes, and a sloping embankment nearby. little creatures!" But the glade was silent, and they legends affirmed, though I've wondered center there is not much time for the old things. I very much wanted to talk to the little people. I walked over to the center of the glade where the curious shiny and looked about the glade. I knew they were all hiding nearby, watching me apprehensively. I lifted my head to them. "Listen to me now, little people!" I called out. "My name's Houlihan of the Roscommon Houlihans. I am descended from King Niall himself—or so at least my father used to say! Come on out now, and pass the time o' day!" Then I waited, but they didn't answer. The little people always had been shy. Yet without reaching suddenly that I had to talk to them. about the old things, I might be able to think the problem through to a a resounding blow with my fist. "Hear me now, little people! If you don't show yourselves and come out and talk to me, I'll wreck this spaceship from stem to stern!" I heard only the leaves rustling Three! " And with that the little people suddenly appeared. The leader—he seemed more wizened and bent than before—approached me slowly and warily as I stood there. The others all followed at a safe distance. I smiled to reassure said with some caution. "My name is Keech." "And mine's Houlihan, as I've told you. Are you convinced now that I have no intention of doing "Mr. Houlihan," said Keech, drawing a kind of peppered dignity up about himself, "in such matters I am never fully convinced. After living for many centuries I am all down cross-legged upon the grass. "Any Irishman wants to talk, Mr. Houlihan." "And often that's all He shook his head and remained standing. "Have your say, Mr. Houlihan. And afterward we'll appreciate it if you'll go away and leave us to our work." and glanced at the spaceship. "That's exactly what's got me curious." The others had edged in a bit intently staring at me. I took out my pipe. "Why," I asked, "would a group of little people be building a but not overwhelmingly so. I've run into believers before who could see the little people. It happens every so often, though not as frequently as it did a century ago. But knowing a spaceship at first glance! Well, I has just now crossed my mind, Mr. Houlihan that you, being a scientist, might be of help to us." "How?" I asked. clay dudeen—and looked hopeful. I gave him a pinch of tobacco from my pouch. "Well, now," he said, that we're not long for this world. that possibility," I said. "Well, then, as I say," said Keech, "the little people have decided Which we're buildin' here and how I had gotten the best of the "You mean you've been spying on us at the center all this time? Do me, though. If you've been constantly around us—and I'm still able to see the little people—why did I never see you before?" "It may be we never crossed your has crossed my mind. That's why I'm wastin' all this time with we're here." "Help you?" "The power control, Mr. Houlihan. "Ha!" said Keech, grinning, but not with humor, "the avarice of humans! I knew it! Well, Mr. Houlihan, I'll give you reason enough. The pot o' gold, Mr. Houlihan!" "The one at the end of the rainbow?" "It's not at the end of the rainbow. That's a grandmother's tale. and peered out between the us how to make our ship work." the air with his arms and piping: those electrical connections over here—and see you're not slow as they wouldn't see the leprechauns of day, and then, in subtle fashion,

<question>:
Which best describes the role of history and faith in this story?

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A It is both family history and faith in the truth of the little people that lets Houlihan interact with them
B It is with knowlege of family history and some faith that Houlihan is able to decieve the little people into trusting him
C It is Houlihan's faith and belief in the existence of fantastical creatures that lets him see the little people
D Houlihan has heard about the little people in reading up on family history and this is why he can see him

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A