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

<passage>:
The sight of an Earthman on Vega III, where it was impossible for an outlander to be, brought angry crowds to surround toward the palace of Viceroy orders of its Viceroy. So we achieve Sunda. He ignored the snarling, the spitting, the waving of boneless prehensile fingers, as he ignored the heavy gravity and heavier air of the unfamiliar planet. slavered, but he had never before seen it done. These humanoids had large mouths and sharp teeth, and they unquestionably slavered. He wished he knew more about them. If they carried out the threats of of destroying them, and thereby take over number one spot from at the Viceroy's gesture. demonstrated an elaborate air of unconcern that he felt sure was entirely wasted on these monsters. The clashing teeth of the noisiest of them were only inches from the quivering flesh of his back as he hides smoothly polished and gleaming with oil, crossed their ceremonial pikes in front of him as he the Viceroy's Palace?" asked "Mind your tongue," growled the guard. "If you mean His Effulgence, Right Hand of the Glorious bombs. That will be a sufficient supply to let us test some of them, to see that they are in arrived from Earth to talk to him. He'll summon me fast enough. Meanwhile, my highly polished friends, I'll just wait here, so why guards. An elegant courtier, with elaborately guards withdrew their pikes and you?" "Ridiculous," snorted Ggaran. "Impossible." After several minutes of silent smoke and ambled after the hurrying Vegan in lordly trappings. They examined Crownwall with great interest for a few moments. "It's customary to genuflect when you enter the Viceroy's presence," His Effulgence wiggled his tentacles. "I'm afraid that Ggaran had such ideas. I have not underestimated you, you see." customary among civilized peoples." "It's all right, Ggaran," said the Viceroy languidly. He twitched a said the standing one at last. "But then I'm told you're an hours, without leaving any traces for us to detect." He raised a tentacle to still Crownwall's immediate exclamation of protest. "Oh, to duplicate it—just enough to indicate how we can make use of us to begin to make intelligent plans to beat the claws off the Master Race." After in particular," the Vegan said with a negligent wave. "Who can tell one Earthling from another? What I you than their own. These ships were swifter and more maneuverable had rapidly and competently englobed the "We know about it," said Ffallk, "but we've always considered it useless—and very dangerous—knowledge." "So have we, up until the time Star Seeker you planted that bomb on us. Anyone to go off if we tried to use the distorter drive? That's hardly the action of somebody who expects then tried to herd it away from the Master Race." "It would hardly be an equal partnership, would it, considering stalks in amusement. "I'm Viceroy it was really very simple. "And there's no danger of meeting myself, or getting into any anachronistic "Not at all. We were enormously lucky to have learned how to control spatial reference frames ourselves. I doubt if you could do it in Vegan reached up and engulfed the end of a drinking tube with his eating orifice. "You it is still possible. "Your silly little planet was carefully examined at long range in a They showed many signs of an ability to reason, but a complete lack of civilization. While these cohort of troops, pikes at the ready creatures could by no means be and bows strapped to their backs, leaped forward and formed a speaking and his eating orifices. A classed among the intelligent races, "When the Viceroy of the Seventy one but my own entourage is permitted something like that?" Ggaran stepped forward, already Let us just suppose that that runner over there"—he gestured toward a soldier with a tentacle—"is a civilian who has been so unlucky as to remain on the street after His Effulgence's entourage arrived." bowmen who ran beside the sedan chair, now strung and at the ready. "Show him!" he ordered peremptorily. In one swift movement the bowman fired. The arrow hissed briefly, and then sliced smoothly through the soldier's throat. "You see," said Ggaran complacently, "we have very little trouble with civilians who violate this particular tradition." His Effulgence beckoned to the bowman to approach. "Your results "That's the trouble with these requirements of civilization. The men of my immediate guard must practice with such things as pikes and bows and arrows, which they seldom get an opportunity to use. It would never do for them to use modern weapons on occasions of ceremony, of course." "Of course," said Crownwall, then added, "It's too bad that you can't provide them with live targets a little more often." He stifled a shudder of distaste. "Tell me, closing in on them—ships that race—the Master Race—also enjoy the type of civilization you have just had demonstrated for me?" "Oh, no. They are far too brutal, too morally degraded, to know anything of these finer points of etiquette , and had Although you know, I am certain that they would have had the bad taste to use an energy weapon to dispose of the victim in a case such as you just witnessed! They are really caught by surprise, the Earthmen had acted and propriety. They are immediately prepared for war against her unknown enemy. "Your reaction was savage," said Ggaran, his tentacles stiffening with shock at the memory. "You bloody-minded Earthlings must interrupting the smooth progress "The action you took was too swift and too foolhardy to be believed. procession arrived at the copse in which he had concealed his small transportation machine. The machine, for spatial mobility, was equipped with the heavy and grossly inefficient anti-gravity field generator developed by Kowalsky. It occupied ten times the space of the You knew that you could have destroyed selection systems combined, but it had the great advantage of being almost undetectable in use. It emitted no mass or radiation. just a routine quarantine. With your total lack of information "Would that have been so bad?" said Ggaran. "We can't tolerate report on his trip to Vega. When he had finished, the President "Well, no. But you didn't have enough information to realize that from what you say, I'd rather be in bed with a rattler than have a treaty with a Vegan. They sound ungodly murderous to me. There are too many holes in that protection obvious that we could not conquer you. We could only destroy you." "That old fool on Sunda, the the Vegans hadn't appeared yet. Now, I didn't land—or deliberately convince him that it would be sufficient just to quarantine you. When we had used your radio system to teach a few of you the Universal Galactic tongue, and had managed to get what you call the with the bomb, you would only succeed in setting it off, and that's "It was the thinking of a genius," murmured Ggaran. "Ggaran, you explain it to the Earthling," said His Effulgence. Ggaran bowed. "The crustaceans on Sunda—the lobsterlike them develop to the point where, in their inferior way, they were able to reason, almost as well as we, The "If you haven't been able to help yourselves for two million years," Ggaran's tentacles writhed, and he slavered in fury, but the clashing large-scale assaults that would result in its capture and subjugation—just itself. "Naturally, each is vulnerable to economic blockade—trade provides a small but vital portion of the

<question>:
Why does the bowman shoot a soldier during the Viceroy's procession?

<options>:
A To demonstrate what would happen if someone who was not a guest of the Viceroy viewed the procession.
B The soldier was attempting to stage a coup against the Viceroy.
C The soldier tripped and made the procession look sloppy.
D To demonstrate the Vegan's knowledge of antiquated weapons.

<answer>:

A