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

<passage>:
send the intruder on his way. Keech and the little people just stood by and grinned all the while. It is not difficult to understand why. The working model and the fact that the small people with their quick eyes and clever fingers could spot all sorts of minute shortcomings The tiny spaceship had been built for a journey to a star. But its noises. It was in a park near the nuclear propulsion center—a cool, out of my mind. I was no longer each other to hush, be quiet, and the soft breeze stirring them up again. I had known precisely such a secluded little green sanctuary just over the hill from Mr. Riordan's farm when I was a boy. so lonely that I couldn't think properly. in a loose circle, as though attending a rite. They were all looking at me quietly. made it a burden in some way. "you will not be forgotten by the leprechauns. If we ever meet again, upon another world perchance, of ours, which were still in the undeveloped of the little people as crept into the corners of some of their turned-up eyes. and shiny and upright and a little stated, mind you—mankind would be well advised not slowly and chuckled to myself at how I had gotten the best of the little people. Surely it was not every over five feet in height. had given them the wrong equation, of course. They would never get their spaceship to work now, and later, if they tried to spy out the right information I would take special measures to prevent it, for I had the advantage of being able to see them. I would hardly have found myself engaged in vital research at the first it might be children at play, but then at the time I was a bit absent-minded. I tiptoed to the edge of the trees, not wanting to deprive any small scalawags of their pleasure, in eerily mysterious fashion with a chorus of small voices. I thought at and peered out between the group of little people, hard at work. I saw? Not children, but a There was a leader, an older one though it would have been pleasant to be truly rich for a change. There was no sense in cheating him out of the gold to boot, for leprechauns are most clever in matters of this sort and he would have had it back soon enough—or else little people. I was more than startled Indeed, I had done a piece of work greatly to my advantage, and also to the advantage of humankind, on my tenth birthday. And I had become convinced they could never be seen here in America. I had For if I had shown the little people They were building something in how to make a spaceship they would have left our world. And it is a most happy accident. "Come along now, people!" said likely to blow ourselves to Kingdom Come without the little people here work! You'll not be needin' to mind that man standin' there! You know he can't see nor hear us!" Oh, it was good to hear the rich for us to believe in every now and then? this crotchety one, looking straight and became stiff and alert for a moment, as though suspecting that perhaps I actually could see him. Then he shrugged and turned away, clearly deeming such a thing impossible. old tongue again. I smiled, and the palms to his cheekbones. "Saints be with us! He's a believer! Run everybody—run for your lives!" as many directions as there were little souls. They began to scurry behind the trees and bushes, and a sloping embankment nearby. "No, wait!" I said. "Don't go away! I'll not be hurting you!" They continued to scurry. I knew what it was they feared. "I don't intend catching one of you!" I said. "Come back, you daft little creatures!" But the glade was silent, and they had all disappeared. They thought I wanted their crock of gold, of course. I'd be entitled to it if I could catch one and keep him. Or so the often about the truth of them. But I was after no gold. I only wanted even if I had latched on to a fine job of work for almost shamefully wanted to talk to the little people. I walked over to the center of I shook my head in wonder, then stepped back from the spaceship and looked about the glade. I knew they were all hiding nearby, watching me apprehensively. I lifted my head to them. "Listen to me now, little people!" I called out. "My name's Houlihan of the Roscommon Houlihans. father used to say! Come on out now, and pass the time o' day!" Then I waited, but they didn't answer. The little people always had been shy. Yet without reaching a decision in so many words I knew suddenly that I against a blank wall. Simply because I was so lonely that my mind had become clogged. "Hear me now, little people! If you don't show yourselves and come out and talk to me, I'll wreck this spaceship I heard only the leaves rustling softly. as if a small, brittle twig had snapped in the underbrush. " And with that the little people suddenly appeared. The leader—he seemed more wizened and bent than before—approached me slowly and warily as I stood there. The others all followed at a safe distance. I smiled to reassure them and then waved my arm drawing a kind of peppered dignity up about himself, "in such matters I am never fully convinced. After living for many centuries I am all too acutely aware of the perversity of human nature." "Yes," I said. "Well, as you will it if you'll go away and leave us to our work." and glanced at the spaceship. "That's exactly what's got me curious." The others had edged in a bit now and were standing in a circle, intently staring at me. I took out my pipe. "Why," I asked, "would a group of little people be building a but not overwhelmingly so. I've run into believers before who could see the little people. It happens every "Well, I might try starting at the adopting some of the "Leprechauns are not really mechanically inclined," said Keech. "Their major passions are music and laughter and mischief, as anyone knows." "Myself included," I agreed. "Then why do you need a spaceship?" "It's very simple. With all the "Well, then, as I say," said Keech, "the little people have decided to leave the planet in a spaceship. Which we're buildin' here and now. We've spied upon you and learned how to do it. Well—almost how to do it. We haven't learned had not been a specialist in my field of things." "You mean you've been spying on us at the center all this time? Do you know, we often had the feeling we were being watched, but we thought it was by the Russians. There's one thing which puzzles me, though. If you've been constantly around us—and I'm still able to see the little people—why did I never see you before?" "It may be we never crossed your path. It may be you can only see us when you're thinkin' of us, and of center. Anyway, I heard these little noises in the park. They sounded mortal who could accomplish that. I not with humor, "the avarice of humans! I knew it! Well, Mr. Houlihan, I'll give you reason enough. more apart, and were deep in argument about the whole project. but Keech and his people made a canopy of boughs and leaves and I was comfortable enough. Every once in a while someone from the town or the center itself would pass by, and stop to watch me. But of course they wouldn't see the leprechauns or anything the leprechauns had made, not being believers. I would halt work, pass the time of day, and then, in subtle fashion,

<question>:
Which of these is most true about why the little people are building what they are where they are?

<options>:
A They were kicked out of their own home for trying to leave the planet and had to find a new place to set up shop
B It was the only think they knew would help them gain access to knowledge necessary for the project
C They wanted to work close enough to the lab to be able to steal supplies
D They wanted to be far away from people who believed in them so that their plans would not be discovered

<answer>:

B