Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] The sand-thing was powerful, lonely and strange. No doubt it was a god—but who wasn't? of his arrival. He touched the pencil-line scar behind his ear where the cylinder was buried, marveling at the power stored there, power to fling him from your hand. Then what do you do? You throw a fit. Yes, a fit! Like an adolescent. Worse." "Earthman, wait...." "No!" Stinson shot back. "You've owned this planet for a million years. You have brooded here alone since before my people discovered fire, and in all those ages you never learned self-control. I can't subject my people to the whims of an entity who throws a planetary fit when it pleases him." cyclones. But he knew little. Weather control made cyclones and other climatic phenomena on earth practically non-existent. The cloud Sybtl said, "Is the Sand God happy?" She shook her head. "No, he is not did not move, though, except to spin on its axis rapidly, emitting not like to be a God." "Stinson," the Sand God said. "You said I was adolescent. You are The sun—no, not the sun. Not Sol. What should he call it, Alpha or Centaurus? Well, perhaps neither. He was here and Earth was somewhere up there. This was the sun of this particular solar system. He was right the first time. the solar system, the galaxy. Then a returning to the planet. Empty.... Change. Buildings, roads, bridges weathering slowly. Such a race would have built of durable metal. Durable? Centuries, eons passed. Buildings explanation. "What am I afraid of?" he said aloud, "a few grains of sand blowing in the wind? A wind devil?" unutterably total void of time—FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS! And a nine-year-old child brooding over an empty world. but it was composed only of grains of sand. There was no core, no The Sand God disappeared. Sybtl said "Is the Sand God angry again?" sand possibly have a nervous system? "You and they shall share the planet." "No, he is not angry." She laughed softly. "You are a strange God." "Listen," he said, "I am not a God. Get that through your head." earth to this fourth planet of the Centaurian system in an instant. a place in the sand and drew a triangle with his forefinger. When it first grains of sand, the realization of what was happening dawned with indecipherable symbols. Life. Intelligence. The planet was inhabited. revolved around the sun. This weapon was completely out of place in a culture such as this. Or was it? What did he know of these people? Very little. They were humanoid. They had exhibited human emotions of anger, fear and, that most human of all characteristics, curiosity. But up to now the tube and the chain was the only evidence of an advanced technology, unless She shrugged her beautiful shoulders. "It is the way of the Gods," she on this planet I attempted to explain that I was not a God, but the primitive is not deeply buried in them. They soon resorted to emotion rather than reason. It is of no importance." it directly. These are the undesirables, the incorrigibles, the nonconformists from the sixth planet. I permit them here because it occupies my time, to watch them evolve." "You should live so long." don't understand you. I see you as a cone of sand which keeps changing this planet populated with your kind?" The wind devil hesitated. "Where do I originate? It seems I have always been. You see this years ago my people were as you. That is, they lived in physical bodies. Our technology surpassed any you have seen. The tube these webfoots use is a toy by comparison. Our scientists found the ultimate nature of physical law. They learned to separate the mind from the body. Then my people set a date. Our entire race was determined to free greatest law of all—that an entity, once in existence, can never cease to exist." The woman looked at him, and she was not smiling. "Please ask the Sand not last. When He is gone they will probably kill us." "As for the webfoots," the wind devil, or Sand God, said, "I will destroy them. You and your people will have the entire planet." is a scientific hypothesis. It has to do with what comes after physical the most basic structure of nature." The Sand God did not reply. The great bodiless, directionless voice was and set down in a dark canyon. The cone of sand was the color of wood When he looked back, the Sand God was gone. God." "Listen, Sybtl," he said desperately, "I am not a God and you are not never had been an athlete. How was he to decide if this planet was suitable for his people, hampered by a woman, slinking through a frozen wilderness like an the Sand God. It was blood red now. It pulsed violently. The great The Sand God pulsed more violently than before. Ice melted in a wide primitive logic long before it reached your level of development." "Yes," Stinson said, "and your race no longer exists." The Sand God became a sphere of blue flame. A wave of intense heat drove them backward. "Earthman," the great voice said, "go back to your Earth. Take your inconsistencies with you. Do not come here again to intelligent as you, but they are sane. If you bring your people here, I shall destroy you all." The sphere of blue fire screamed away across the frozen wilderness, and the thunder of its passing shook the ground and echoed among the lonely hills. Sybtl shivered against his arm. "The Sand God is angry," she said. "My people tell how he was angry once before, when we first came here. He killed half of us and burned the ship that brought us. That is how Kaatr got the tube-weapon. It was the only thing the Sand God didn't burn, that and the skirts. Then, when he had burned the ship, the Sand God went to the sixth planet and burned two of the largest cities, as a Sybtl touched his arm. "Why did the Sand God come? He did not speak." "I did not hear." "Yes, I know now. His voice sounds like thunder in the sky, but it is a voice that speaks only in the mind. He said I must leave this planet." She glanced at him with suddenly awakened eyes, as if thinking of it "Don't worry. The Sand God travels without a ship, why shouldn't I?" no time, now, to warm cold feet or dwell on the vagaries of Sand Gods. "The Sand God," Sybtl said. "Sometimes he plays among the clouds. He to green. Then he tires and lets winter come back again. He is the loneliest God in the universe." "What makes you think he's lonely?" She shrugged her shoulders. "I just know. But he's an angry God now. angry?" "The Sand God isn't doing this," Stinson said. "It's only a storm." and be more angry." "But it is, don't you see? You give him powers he does not possess." understand. The Sand God is terrible, even when he plays. See the to the desert of sand, where he had first arrived on the planet. He Stinson had never been in a sand storm before, even on Earth. He could not breathe. He could not see. Bullets of sand stung his skin. Bullets of sand shot into his eyes. Clouds of sand howled around him. He fell, "The Sand God is tired," Sybtl said. "He is not angry now. I'm glad. here with a God who is half devil." The cone of sand suddenly appeared. It stood in the canyon, its base "Earthman," the Sand God said, as if he were about to make a statement. her. The webfoots might find us, or the Sand God might destroy us in

<question>:
Which is the best description of the Sand God?

<options>:
A An ancient being who carries centuries of wisdom but has become more volatile with age
B One of many like beings, all with the same types of powers
C Volatile and convinced of old ideas without putting them under scrutiny
D A tempermental, angry power who has always lived on this planet

<answer>:

D