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

<passage>:
?" "It is an outrage," said Koltan of the House of Masur, "that the Earthmen land among the Thorabians!" "And after that?" was in favor of the coming of the Earthmen to the world of Zur. At the head of the long, shining table sat old Kalrab Masur, in his nor true Earthmen, but a mixture of both." Broderick smiled gently. "Zur will grow. Our people will intermarry dotage, but still giving what he could of aid and comfort to the "No," said Broderick, his usually smiling face almost pained with the rank of age, Zotul, who was responsible for affairs of design. "Behold, my sons," said Kalrab, stroking his scanty beard. "What are these Earthmen to worry about? Remember the clay. It is our strength and our fortune. It is the muscle and bone of our trade. Earthmen may come and Earthmen may go, but clay goes on forever ... and with it, the fame and fortune of the House of Masur." "It is a damned imposition," agreed Morvan, ignoring his father's philosophical attitude. "They could have landed just as easily here in Lor." Zotul's eyes widened. "And that is why my brothers did not beat me when I failed!" "Listen to the boy," said the aged father. "There is more wisdom in his head than in all the rest of you. Forget the Earthmen and think only of the clay." Zotul did not appreciate his father's approval, for it only earned him a beating as soon as the old man went to bed. It was a common enough about the Earthmen. If it was impossible to hope for much in the way By and by, the Earthmen came to Lor, flying through the air in strange The Earthmen were going to do great things for the whole world of effect, was what the Earthmen had to say. Zotul felt greatly cheered, for it refuted the attitude of his brothers without earning him a whaling for it. tried. The anti-Earthmen Faction—in any culture complex, there is happily that the Earthmen were gone for good, and a good thing, too. practically acrawl with Earthmen. Immediately, the Earthmen established what they called pottery one evening, he found his wife Lania proudly brandishing an aluminum pot at him. substance for some fool's product of precious metal? Take it back, I say!" The pretty young wife laughed at him. "Up to your ears in clay, no wonder you hear nothing of news! The pot is very cheap. The Earthmen are selling them everywhere. They're much better than our old clay said so." "He did, did he? These pots are only a fad. You will soon enough go back to cooking with your old ones." "The Earthman took them in trade—one reason why the new ones are so them." Within five years of the first landing of the Earthmen, every major "this coming of the Earthmen had been a great thing for us, and especially for the House of Masur." "You didn't think so at first," Zotul pointed out, and was immediately unthinkable impertinence. It would do no good, Zotul realized, to bring up the fact that their production of ceramic cooking pots had dropped off to about two per cent of its former volume. Of course, profits on the line of new stoves everything they sold, the Earthmen always took the old ware in trade. What they did with the stuff had been hard to believe at first. They destroyed it, which proved how valueless it really was. The result of the new flood was that in the following year, the sale of called an emergency meeting. He even routed old Kalrab out of his "Note," Koltan announced in a shaky voice, "that the Earthmen undermine Father Kalrab sat and pulled his scanty whiskers. Seeing that they got "My sons, you forget it is not the Earthmen themselves at the bottom newspapers, which also are the property of the Earthmen. The people are In their dozenth conference since that first and fateful one, the brothers Masur decided upon drastic steps. In the meantime, several things had happened. For one, old Kalrab had passed on to his immortal rest, but this made no real difference. For another, the Earthmen had at a nice profit and everybody was happy with the situation except the brothers Masur. commercials. Happily for the brothers, they did not understand this at the time or they would surely have gone back to be buried in their own clay. "I think," the governor told them, "that you gentlemen have not At any rate, the brothers Masur were still able to console themselves that they had their tile business. Tile served well enough for houses All the brothers could no longer be spared from the plant, even for the purpose of pressing a complaint. Their days of idle wealth over, they had to get in and work with the clay with the rest of the help. with something called "blacktop" and jammed with an array of glittering new automobiles. An automobile was an expense none of the brothers could afford, now Kent Broderick, the Earthman in charge of the Council, shook hands occasion were dissipated in the warmth of the Earthman's manner. Almost apologetically, Zotul told of the encroachment that had been made upon the business of the Pottery of Masur. "Once," he said formally, "the Masur fortune was the greatest in the world of Zur. That was before my father, the famous Kalrab Masur—Divinity protect him—departed this life to collect his greater reward. He often told us, my father did, that the clay is the flesh and bones of our culture and our fortune. Now it has been shown how prone is the flesh to corruption and how feeble the bones. We are ruined, and bargain-priced merchandise of Earth must be poor indeed. "None at all," beamed the Earthman cheerily. "Every item is given to "Impossible," said Zotul drably. "Not I and all my brothers together have so much money any more." all there is to it." It sounded wonderful. But how would the brothers take it? Zotul wrestled with his misgivings and the misgivings won. "I will talk it over with them," he said. "Give me the total so I will company." Zotul, anxious to possess the treasures promised by the Earthman, won over his brothers. They signed with marks and gave up a quarter interest in the Pottery of Masur. They rolled in the luxuries of Earth. These, who had never known debt before, were in it up to their ears. The retooled plant forged ahead and profits began to look up, but the Earthmen took a fourth of them as their share in the industry. For a year, the brothers drove their shiny new cars about on the fans, air-conditioning equipment and everything else Earth could possibly sell them. "We will be forty years paying it all off," exulted Zotul, "but meantime we have the things and aren't they worth it?" But at the end of three years, the Earthmen dropped their option. Earthmen, explained Broderick, had built a plant of their own because it was so much more efficient—and to lower prices, which was Earth's Broderick was very sympathetic, but there was nothing he could do. and a half, the Earthmen had wrought magnificent changes on this money and felt the pinch of their debts more keenly, but television kept their wives and children amused and furnished an anodyne for the pangs of impoverishment. The pottery income dropped to an impossible low, no matter how Zotul designed and the brothers produced. Their figurines and religious ikons somewhat comforted. was remarkable that he paid so little attention, for the female the Earthman. "I don't understand. The Earthmen...." Zotul paused, coloring. "We are "You mean," exclaimed Zotul, aghast, "that you Earthmen own everything "But why

<question>:
Was Kalrab correct in how he felt about the Earthmen?

<options>:
A Kind of - he was right when he said the Earthmen weren't something to worry about, but he was wrong about clay lasting forever
B No - he said clay and their fortune would last forever, and he was wrong
C Yes - he said the Earthmen weren't something to worry about, and he was right
D Yes - he said clay and their fortune would last forever, and he was right

<answer>:

B