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. the entire problem all but whipped. It is not difficult to understand why. equation The tiny spaceship had been built for a journey to a star. But its small, mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny—on Earth. of the old things every day, and truly that went far to take the clutter out of my mind. I was no longer so lonely that I couldn't think properly. and under all conditions of friction and combustion." work out an equation to give the in combustion. You may call it it came from the rocket "you will not be forgotten by the leprechauns. If we ever meet again, upon another world perchance, blueprint stage. although I had hoped to get right from any orifice has a velocity directly "What's this now?" root of the pressure-head driving it. "I don't feel it would be right to take it for a service of this sort." and other factors make the velocity of nuclear explosion—which is what the drive amounts to despite the fact that it is simply water in now, do you hear, for Mr. Houlihan—friend of the little people as long as he shall live!" And they cheered. And little tears which nuclear salts have been previously edge, the velocity of approach to the to weary you. word for it that without this equation—correctly stated, mind you—mankind would be well advised not slowly and chuckled to myself at how I had gotten the best of the little people. Surely it was not every mortal who could accomplish that. I had given them the wrong equation, of course. They would never get their spaceship to work now, and first it might be children at play, but then at the time I was a bit absent-minded. I tiptoed to the edge of the trees, not wanting to deprive any small scalawags of their pleasure, I saw? Not children, but a group of little people, hard at work. There was a leader, an older one with a crank face. He was beating the air with his arms and piping: There was no sense in cheating him out of the gold to boot, for leprechauns are most clever in matters of this sort and he would have had it back soon enough—or else made it a burden in some way. Indeed, I had done a piece of work greatly to my advantage, and also to the advantage of humankind, and when a man can do the first and 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 would have left our world. And become convinced they could never "Come along now, people!" said this crotchety one, looking straight Come without the little people here for us to believe in every now and then? at me. "Stop starin' and get to work! You'll not be needin' to mind that man standin' there! You and became stiff and alert for a moment, as though suspecting that perhaps "Ohhh!" he said and put his palms to his cheekbones. "Saints be with us! He's a believer! Run everybody—run for your lives!" And they all began running, in as many directions as there were little souls. They began to scurry behind the trees and bushes, and a sloping embankment nearby. "No, wait!" I said. "Don't go away! I'll not be hurting you!" They continued to scurry. I knew what it was they feared. "I don't intend catching one of you!" I said. "Come back, you daft little creatures!" But the glade was silent, and they had all disappeared. They thought I wanted their crock of gold, of course. I'd be entitled to it if I could catch one and keep him. Or so the legends affirmed, though I've wondered often about the truth of them. full of science as the nuclear propulsion course it was a spaceship, or a me apprehensively. I lifted my head to them. "Listen to me now, little people!" I called out. "My name's against a blank wall. Simply because I was so lonely that my mind had become clogged. spaceship, and this time I struck it "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!" "Do you understand? I'll give you until I count three to make an appearance! One!" "Two!" " Three! " And with that the little people suddenly appeared. The leader—he seemed more wizened and bent than before—approached that I have no intention of doing you any injury?" 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 too acutely aware of the perversity of human nature." "Yes," I said. "Well, as you will quickly see, all I want to do is "And often that's all he wants," returned to the Island." He shook his head and remained it if you'll go away and leave us to our work." and glanced at the spaceship. intently staring at me. I took out my pipe. "Why," I asked, "would a group of little people be building a spaceship here in America—out in a spaceship. I was surprised enough 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 spaceship when I see one?" I said. "How?" I asked. to find us here in America." "But continue." spaceship." "A spaceship, now," I said, unconsciously adopting some of the old manner. "Leprechauns are not really mechanically inclined," said Keech. "Their major passions are music and laughter and mischief, as anyone knows." "Myself included," I agreed. "Then why do you need a spaceship?" "Well, if I may use an old expression, that we're not long for this world. Or let me put it this way. We feel the world isn't long for itself." such as that?" up in the process of destroying yourselves." "There "Well, then, as I say," said Keech, "the little people have decided to leave the planet in a spaceship. Which we're buildin' here and now. We've spied upon you and learned how to do it. Well—almost how to do it. We haven't learned the planet, you say. And where I was inclined to suggest the constellation Orion, which sounds make the ship, and proceed with its thought it was by the Russians. There's one thing which puzzles me, though. If you've been constantly these last few minutes a certain matter has crossed my mind. That's why I'm wastin' all this time with As I understand it, 'tis necessary how much thrust is bein' delivered out exactly as it does on paper." "You're referring to the necessity "Whatever it might be named," said Keech, shrugging. "'Tis the our ship move." "Well, now, Keech," I said finally, "why should I help you?" "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. us how to make our ship work." then?" was out we had half the spaceship apart, and were deep in argument about the whole project. treacle about it!" but Keech and his people made a canopy of boughs and leaves and I or the center itself would pass by, and stop to watch me. But of course they wouldn't see the leprechauns or anything the leprechauns had made, not being believers. I would halt work, pass the time of day, and then, in subtle fashion,

<question>:
Which of these is the best description of why the narrator strikes the spaceship?

<options>:
A He is convinced there's nothing there and his hand will pass right through
B He wants to test what it's made out of to see if it would make a good model for his own project
C He wants to show he means business and call to their attention
D He is upset that the people ran away and wants to harm something they care about

<answer>:

C