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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to their character—if such utterly alien creatures could be said to have character. The house was furnished with all of the house, which radiated spoke-like from its heptagonal central reminiscent of scores of movie sets of the Deep South. That on the right was sundeck solar-house living-machine modern, something like a montage of shoeboxes. The wing hidden by the rest of the house was, he knew, spired, gabled and multicolored, like an ancient building in pre-Hitler Cracow. hair. wrinkle when he moved. Their captors had no idea of how a woven design first to come back for a second run." tight-fitting tubular gown. "If I could do anything about it...." "But you can't," he told her. "They're too clever." "Is this crop rotation or did you send for me?" she asked cynically. on with it." He could sense the restless stirring of the woman within them by their captors. They walked toward the house. It didn't look like a prison—or a cage. Within the dome of the barrier, it looked more like a well-kept if bizarre little country estate. There was clipped lawn, a scattering of trees, even a clear But the lawn was not of grass—it was of a bright green substance that that might have been canvas but was something else. The trees looked like trees, only their trunks were bark all the way through—except They entered the house, which had no roof, continued to move beneath a might have been a well-kept if bizarre little country estate, but it wasn't. It was a prison, a cage. "Okay, I guess," she said. "The way they manage it, there's nothing a female foreman in a garment-cutting shop before being captured and in a harem, even when it's supposedly my own." thinking of what they wanted to eat but would not enjoy when it came. It arrived before the meal, materializing against one of the seven walls of the roofless chamber. It was a large cabinet on slender opened a hingeless door and pushed a knob on the inner surface. At once the air was hideous with the acerate harmony of a singing commercial.... be it gold, brown or red, in Any-tone Shampoo! A disc jockey's buoyant tones cut in quickly as the final Tennant watched the girls as a sweet-voiced crooner began to ply an unfamiliar love lyric to a melody whose similarity to a thousand predecessors doomed it to instant success. Olga sat up straight, her pale blue eyes round with utter disbelief. get through. TV doesn't seem to. Somehow it brings things closer...." upon her. The food arrived then and they sat down at the round table to cage. Their captors were utterly without a human conception of smell, living, apparently, in a world without odor at all. ask to come here any more than we did. He's got a wife back home. Maybe things are arranged here." the means to make us do whatever they want." all are. We seem to be in a universe of different properties as well as them, she alone had more than a high-school education. settle for the fourth—a fourth dimension in space, if that makes scientific sense, because we don't seem to have moved in time. I wasn't don't—or can't—they bring back with them. Live or dead, we're just display in their—their whatever they live in. You call that human, quietly. "Or in a Museum of Natural History? A zoo? A naturalist's lab? her auburn hair back from her face and went out of the roofless house, Eudalia took him to the nursery. He was irritated now in another, "I'll try not to," he said and stopped, realizing the family party was and returned to his smaller compound within its own barrier dome. illusion of heat that was not heat, that was prelude to his He called it the training hall, not because it looked like a training hall but because that was its function. It didn't actually look like discarded as too nightmarish for belief. three-dimensional space. One wall looked normal for perhaps a third of perfectly smooth and continuously straight. The opposite wall resembled a diagonal cross-section of an asymmetrical The captor Tennant called Opal. You will approach without use of your appendages. He went through the entire routine at Opal's bidding. When at last probing investigation. Opal, like the rest of the captors, was as repetition before his workout was done. On Earth, dogs were said to be intellectually two-dimensional creatures. He wondered if they felt this helpless futility when their masters taught them to heel, to point, to retrieve. of near-sick excitement as he received the thought: Or perhaps that was his intent He had little time to speculate before Opal seemed to envelop him. another room, a room which ended in a huge irregular passage that might have been the interior of a giant concertina—or an old-fashioned kodak. sort of ultradimensional television set, but to Tennant it was as incomprehensible as an oil painting to an animal. What cover must your body have not to be conspicuous? he would soon emerge on Earth where he had left it. That told him everything but the date and season. Opal, like the rest of the captors, The maid who opened the door for him was new, although her eyes were old. But she recognized him and stood aside to let him enter. There cheeks as she shut the door behind him. He went into the living room, smell house." Then, "When do you expect Mrs. Tennant?" Still looking frightened, she departed for the rear of the house. He shrugged, returned to the feeling of comfort that came from being there would be in a ghastly spot. He felt like a heel for wanting to leave them there, then knew that he would try somehow to get them out. He realized, shocked and scared, that his thoughts of escape had It was like being let out of a cage. Tennant grinned at the bookcase with the casual antiquity of the living room. Agatha would complain, naturally, but his being back would make up for any amount of furniture shifting. He imagined her standing close to house, his life.... Your wife and a man are approaching the house. The thought message from Opal crumbled his illusion of freedom. He sank down in a chair, trying to refuse to listen to the rest of the command: house in a mere seven jumps, the distance to the window in an instant. Grim, he watched the swoop of headlights in the driveway and returned The front door was flung open and his diaphragm tightened at the "... Don't be such a stuffed-shirt, darling." Agatha's mocking groomed, more assured than his memory of her. out of hand, but whose inherent aggressive grace had not yet deserted him. The mustache and the smooth salesman's manner. it was, with all of them going through their paces like a trio of served as a bar. It was fully equipped—with more expensive liquor, he right to know. I do, anyway." conscious of her perfume. It wrapped them both like an exotic blanket, chin, the arch of nostril, the carmine fullness of lower lip, the swell of bosom above low-cut gown. And he no longer wanted any of it or of her. Cass Gordon— to do?" What He lit a cigarette, inhaled. "Relax. I'm not planning revenge. After Cass—seven years if the maid who let me in tonight talks. That's the "You bastard," said Cass. "You dirty bastard! You know what a wait like that could do to us." "Tristan and Isolde," said Tennant, grinning almost happily. "Well, easier and pleasanter than he had expected. They deserved some of the as trophies. With women it was different—perhaps the captors' weapons, questing thoughts toward his captor, asking why they didn't simply set a blowgun, to set up shop in the midst of a herd of wild elephants. It

<question>:
Which term best describes how the author characterizes the home in the beginning of the story?

<options>:
A neoclassical
B industrial
C eclectic
D gothic

<answer>:

C