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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Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Sure I'm a Nilly, and I've died seven times, always in the blackness of the outer reaches, and I'm not alone, although there aren't very many of us, never were. It made sense. Interstellar was new and they wanted him on the ship because he was a trained observer. They wanted facts, not gibberish. But to ask a man to give up two years of his life—well, that was asking a lot. Two years in a sardine can. Still, it had an appeal Keith Ellason knew he couldn't deny, a newsman's joy of the clean beat, a planetary system far afield, a closeup view of the universe, history in the first trip." had taken off on the first trip to Antheon five years before with a thousand families, reached the planet with less than five hundred surviving colonists. Upon the return to Earth a year later, the crew's report of suffering and chaos during the year's outgoing voyage was twisted, distorted and fragmentary. Ellason remembered it well. The Sessions in dealing with such matters. "Space affects men in a peculiar way," Phipps said. "We have conquered "Sessions," Rexroad said, "was a bully. The trouble started at about the halfway point. It ended with passengers engaging in open warfare with each other and the crew. Sessions was lucky to escape with his life." to arm themselves." "The second trip is history," Rexroad said. "And a puzzle." They probably took over the ship." Captain Branson and his fifty crewmen want to return as badly as you do." He grinned. "You can write that novel you're always talking about on your return trip on the ." Being a Nilly is important, probably as important as running the ship, and I think it is this thought that keeps us satisfied, willing to be what we are. The had been built in space, as had its predecessor, the Antheon as it circled Earth, shuttling its cargo and passengers to the be the home for three thousand persons outward bound, only the crew on the return trip. It was equipped with every conceivable facility was caught and whisked away. to final reports from his engineers, record keepers, fuel men, strictly from the observer viewpoint. There will be no story for Transworld at the end." "Let me put it differently. Let me say that you will not understand why I say that until the journey ends." He smiled. "Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned it." Ellason left the captain's quarters with an odd taste in his mouth. Now a year, just as there were homes like it for three thousand others, except that the family rooms would be larger. His quarters were near He felt rather than heard the dull rumble. It was a sound he knew would be with him for two years—one year going and one year returning. He looked at his watch, picked up his notebook and made an entry. The ship right now would be slipping ever so slowly away from Earth. He got up. He'd have to go forward to the observation dome to see that. Last view of Earth for two years. The penetration of space by large groups is the coming out from under the traditions of thousands of years, and as these planet-orginated rules fall away, the floundering group seeks a new control, for they which went to all hands and passengers. In the Bulletin the captain was significant that all en route had passed stability tests, and that should have been permitted aboard. ? They had passed stability tests too. This, then, was what happened when you took three thousand strangers and stuck them in a can for a year. When Ellason saw Branson about it, the captain said, "Of course I happen. We've got to find that thief." I going to get seeds like those? Do you know how long it took me to collect them? They're not ordinary seeds, Mr. Ellason." compresses, stultifies. He introduces a countermeasure, proof he exists, which is any overt act, sometimes violent. On the forty-fifth day June Failright, the young wife of one of the passenger meteorologists, ran screaming down one of the long corridors taken to one of the ship's doctors, who confirmed it. Captain Branson, demanding action. no crewmen to spare for police duty." The delegation commenced speaking vehemently, to be quieted by The group left in a surly mood. suppose I assign the crew to patrol duties, the culprit isn't caught, and further incidents occur. What then? It soon becomes the crew's Ellason left, feeling uneasy. If he were Branson, he'd initiate an investigation, if nothing else than to prove the crew guiltless. Why in a red mask was seen hurrying from the hospital area, and a staff forced to submit to a thorough inspection in an effort to find the be a member of the crew. I am ordering an assembly of all passengers at nine tomorrow morning in the auditorium. I will speak to you all then." a police force for you. It is up to you people to police and protect in turn selected five others from his own group. Those assembled waited in the hall while each team of six inspected the compartments of the others. These compartments were then locked, everyone returned to his compartment, and the larger search was conducted. It took twenty hours. No mask was found. No mask, no case, no money, no man. At another assembly the following day it was decided to make the inspection teams permanent, to await further moves on the part of Red there is hate there is violence, and where there is violence there is death. During sleep time on the seventy-ninth day Barbara Stoneman, awakened by a strange sound, sat up in the bed of her compartment to find a corridor. The flight of the man was witnessed by many, and several men escaped. that no weapons are to be issued en route." They got their guns. Now there were twenty-four policemen on duty in the corridors—eight on at a time. Ellason observed that for the first time the passengers seemed relaxed. retreating figure. Red Mask was seen again on the 120th day, on the 135th day, and the We've got him on the run, the colonists said. appeared one day in the Bulletin newsletter. The colonists settled down to living out the rest of the voyage until leaving disorder behind. Ellason interviewed as many victims as he could, noted it all in "What does he want that stuff for?" Casey Stromberg, a passenger The council issued orders that all passengers from now on would be required to lock their compartments at all times. More guns were obtained from the captain. More policemen were appointed. trigger-happy policemen thought their movements suspicious, about one "Oh, yes, Mr. Ellason, we're going to get him," said Tilbury, now chief of police, cracking his knuckles, his eyes glowing at the thought. detail. He won't be able to get through our fingers now. Just let him make so much as a move." "And what will you do when you get him?" fiercely than ever. "Without a trial?" "Oh, there'll be a trial, Mr. Ellason, but you don't think any jury'd let him live after all the things he's done, do you?" named Terryl Placer on the 201st day. The criminal was carried to the and then. It was a long trial—from the 220th to the 241st day—and there didn't seem to be much doubt about the outcome, for Critten didn't help his own cause during any of it. just sitting around. I had to work my head off keeping records for you lazy bastards." The verdict was, of course, death. by a great crowd in the assembly hall. A detail from the ship's crew which it always is. The Weblor II was only one day out of orbit when Captain Branson sent lives." "Let me get this straight. Interstellar thought that it was idleness and boredom that caused the killings on the trained to be a scapegoat. Is that right?" the passengers." "He'll get it back when he's shuttled to Antheon. And all the other Captain Branson told them to do that." rob her when she woke up."

<question>:
How long did it take for the passengers to form a police force?

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A 94 days
B 79 days
C 31 days
D 52 days

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B