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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Quest rose from the table in a sudden uncoiling of movement. He did not unbuckle his safety immeasurably powerful, utterly invulnerable. There was only one question: Was he human? In his haste, Quest missed the companionway in his leap and was cornered against one of the stick upraised. feared she was in Quest made no effort to retaliate. He cowered under the attack, holding his hands in front had insisted. A woman could not possibly make her way through these Quest shook his head. “Don't bother him,” he said. “I'm all right,” insisted Quest and when the skeptical Jakdane insisted on examining her some sober advice. “If you think you're in love with Quest, forget it,” he said. “Why? Because he's a coward? Because he's an android!” “What? Jakdane, you can't be serious!” human could stand the rocket acceleration necessary to break free of Jupiter? Here's a man strong enough to break a spaceship safety belt just by getting the dark man, faced with his The dark man was at her and then crying that he had injured his hand on the bar. “But he said Dr. Mansard was his father,” protested Trella. “Robots and androids frequently look on their makers as “Quest may not even know he's 57 artificial. Do you know how Mansard died?” “The oxygen equipment failed, Quest said.” Quest lived in the poisonous atmosphere of Jupiter, if he's human?” Trella was silent. “For the protection of humans, there are two psychological traits built into every robot At this juncture, the bartender man Quest to a T, Trella. There is no other explanation for him: Dom Blessing. Its success had bottleneck in his hand Jakdane was right, but his reasoning was unassailable. Looking upon Quest as an android, many things were explained: his great strength, his short, broad build, his immunity to injury, his refusal to defend himself against a human, his inability to return Trella's love for him. menacingly. that they were artificial. There were instances of android nursemaids who were virtually them. She was glad now that she had not told Quest of her mission to Ganymede. He thought he was Dr. Mansard's son, but an android had no legal right of inheritance from his owner. She would leave it to Dom Blessing to decide what to do about Quest. Thus she did not, as she had intended originally, speak to ached where the dark man had after she had completed her assignment. Even if Jakdane was wrong and Quest was human—as now seemed unlikely—Quest had told her he could not love her. Her best course was to try to forget him. Nor did Quest try to arrange with her for a later meeting. those men for you, Miss, but I “I'm Quest Mansard, Miss,” said her companion. “I'm just in from Jupiter.” favoring him with a green-eyed you can use, Mr. Blessing,” she I should tell you about.” She told him about Quest. “He thinks he's the son of Dr. Mansard,” she finished, “but apparently he is, without knowing it, an android Dr. Mansard built on Jupiter.” Dr. Eriklund Mansard?” you, eh?” asked Blessing intently. living as a man or to tell him he's an android and claim ownership as Dr. Mansard's heir.” Trella planned to spend a few days resting in her employer's accompanied him wherever he Dom Blessing at breakfast and step, seeming to deliberately hold himself down. “If Dr. Mansard succeeded in landing on Jupiter, why didn't anyone ever hear from him again?” she demanded. “Because,” said Quest, “his radio was sabotaged, just as his ship's drive was.” “A wealthy man must be careful,” said Blessing cheerfully. asked Blessing. “When we don't understand all “Why all the protection?” she we must be prepared for of. Without actually intending to, she exclaimed: “You aren't afraid of Quest? Why, an android can't hurt a human!” Blessing peered at her over his spectacles. “And what if he isn't an android, eh? And if he is—what if old Mansard didn't build in the prohibition against harming humans that's required by law? hadn't known about, hadn't even suspected. For some reason, Dom Blessing feared Dr. Eriklund Mansard … or his heir … or his mechanical servant. She was sure that Blessing was wrong, that Quest, whether man or android, intended no 59 harm to him. Surely, Quest would have said something of aspace, since he did not know of Trella's connection with Blessing. But, since this was to be the atmosphere of Blessing's Mansard papers to the New York laboratory. Quest came the day before she was scheduled to leave. against telling him that the assignment on which she had “The steel doors!” cried Blessing, Blessing, ahead of the rest, leaped into one of the cars and started the engine. being so strongly attracted to a it was wrenched from her hand as Blessing stepped on the accelerator probing it. As she reached his side, he lifted the torn body of Dom Blessing. Blessing was dead. “I'm lucky,” said Quest soberly. “But why, Quest? I knew he was afraid of you, but he didn't tell me why.” to the task of hunting down Dom Blessing and killing him. It was an unconscious drive in me that wouldn't release me until the task was finished. “You see, Blessing was my father's thought with a rush of sympathy, Io. Blessing wanted the valuable rights to the surgiscope, and he sabotaged the ship's drive so it would fall into Jupiter. Her employer had impressed upon Blessing could not object to Dr. Mansard's son knowing about it. All these things had happened before she was born, and she did not know what Dom Blessing's relation to Dr. Mansard had been, but it must have been and he conditioned me to come Mansard had invented the surgiscope. This was an instrument with to Earth and track down Blessing. a three-dimensional screen as its I know now that it was delicate operations could be performed at the cellular level. Dr. Mansard and his wife had disappeared into the turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter just after in Jupiter's atmosphere after the oxygen equipment failed. I know you think Dr. Mansard was your father, but androids which Blessing headed. Through all these years since Dr. Mansard's disappearance, 55 Blessing had been searching the Jovian moons for a second, hidden laboratory of Dr. Mansard. When it was found at last, he often believe that.” sent Trella, his most trusted “Do you forget my father there. Blessing would, of course, be happy to learn that a son of Dr. Mansard lived, and would see that he received his rightful share of the inheritance. Because herself but she decided against it. It was Blessing's privilege to do this his own way, and he might not appreciate her meddling. her that her mission was confidential, but surely Dom you to be a chaperon,” she said. “I kept waiting for Quest to do something, and when he didn't her wounded feelings with a sympathetic pleasantry, but he “But my father was able to other passengers, and never showed the slightest spark of emotion … until the day Quest squirted coffee on him. It was one of those accidents successfully. I was born there, crewmen on that particular waking were eating lunch on the center-deck. Quest picked up his bulb of coffee, but inadvertently pressed it before he got it to his

<question>:
What is Blessing's fear regarding Dr. Mansard?

<options>:
A Blessing is afraid that Dr. Mansard is not actually deceased and currently plotting against him
B Blessing is afraid that Dr. Mansard will inform Quest that he is actually an android
C Blessing is afraid that Dr. Mansard has set two assassins to come after him and the documentation he stole
D Blessing is afraid that Dr. Mansard left out programming that would prevent Quest from hurting living creatures

<answer>:

D