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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The ancient rule was sink or swim—swim Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] I that I might ever see, so I took a long final look from the top of the together when we get down?" scrawniness to last much longer. Mother is very good looking. In the meantime, I've got brains as a consolation. the only competition I have my own age. The trouble is, you don't go The planet chosen for our Trial was called Tintera. The last contact debate a little before they dropped us there, but they decided it was all right in the end. It didn't make any practical difference to us I said good-by to Mother and Daddy—a real emotional scene—but that wasn't in public. It wasn't the chance of not coming back that bothered me really, calves ache or every time you step you think you're going to trip on a piece of fluff and break your neck. There are vegetables everywhere and little grubby things just looking for you not for me. It's no game we play. When we turn fourteen, they drop us on the like fun to you, but a lot of us never come back alive. Don't think I was helpless. I'm hell on wheels. They don't let us grow for fourteen years and then kick us out to die. They prepare us. They do figure, though, that if you can't keep yourself alive by the time you're fourteen, you're too stupid, foolish or unlucky to be any use to the Ship. There's sense behind it. It means that everybody on the Ship is a person who can take care of himself if he has to. Daddy says that something has to be done in a closed society to keep the population from decaying mentally and physically, and this is it. And it helps to keep the population steady. bad moment any longer. if it's really going to come back. But I lived through it—one day in The first was automatic. The second was to find out if there was a slot camp out, as nasty as that would be. The third was to join forces, nobody, especially me. So we do a lot of fighting. I had a good month for Trial. My birthday is in November—too close to look forward to. animals. I shot one small one and ate it. It turned out to taste pretty it in the level below. It was narrow and made of sand spread over a identify. draft animals. The first of the Great Ships was finished in 2025. One of the eight, had to be domesticated from scratch. That would have been stupid. I'll bet that half the colonies would have failed if they hadn't had horses. alive. made a wordless, chilling, lowing sound as they milled and plodded looks mean, I generally believe that he is. This one looked mean. That He said, "What be you doing out here, boy? Be you out of your head? I told you I hadn't finished filling out yet, but I hadn't thought it was that bad. I wasn't ready to make a fight over the point, though. "And where be you going?" with him. all. We mought as well throw him back again." expected, he shrugged and one of the other men laughed. I said, "I don't think so." narrowed eyes. But one of the others held up a hand and in wheedling tones said, "Look here, kid...." "Shut up," I said, in as mean a voice as I could muster, and he did. It surprised me. I didn't think I sounded that After twenty minutes of easy riding for us and hard walking for the the creatures still while one beat a dust-raising retreat down the road. I even convince myself that I'm hell on wheels. the last. I like to watch people when they open it for the first time. a gallop. but I decided I'd not tell anybody different until I found what made the clocks tick on this planet. But that wasn't what bothered me. It was the kids. My God! They swarmed. I saw a family come out of a house—a father and four children. It was the most foul thing I've ever seen. It struck me then—these people were Free Birthers! I felt a wave of nausea and I closed my eyes until it passed. The first thing you learn in school is that if it weren't for idiot and criminal people like these, Earth would never have been destroyed. The evacuation would never have had to take place, and eight billion people But, no. They bred and they spread and they devoured everything in their path like a cancer. They gobbled up all the resources that Earth had and crowded and shoved one another until the final war came. I am lucky. My great-great-grandparents were among those who had enough foresight to see what was coming. If it hadn't been for them and some others like them, there wouldn't be any humans left anywhere. And I What happened before, when people didn't use their heads and wound up How do you find out what's going on? Eavesdrop? That's a lousy method. want to hear. For another, you're likely to get caught. Ask somebody? up with a sore head and an empty pocket. The best thing I could think Not too different, but not ours. takes an advanced technology to build. buildings on it. One was a well enclosure and the other was little more his wife and their three children. The kids were running around and playing, and one of them ran close to the high-walled pen. His father came and pulled him away. The kids weren't to blame for their parents, but when one of them said kids. Isn't that horrible? About the time I finished eating, and before it grew dark, the old man seen before. When nightfall came, they started a large fire. Everybody gathered around. There was singing for awhile, and then the father of the children tried to pack them off to bed. But they weren't ready to go, A voice there said, "I'll be damned if I'll take another day like this not." what they used the high-walled pen for. I should have known that they would have to pen the animals up for the night. I should have used my head. I hadn't and now it was time to take "No," he said. "Look through the kid's gear, bring the horse and what being kicked, but was rather establishing who did the kicking in his bunch. trouble. So don't give me a hard time." He still thought I was a boy. It was not time to correct him, but I didn't like to see the point go unchallenged. It was unflattering. "The courts won't let you get away with this," I said. I'd passed a courthouse in the town with a carved motto over the doors: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW or TRUTH OUR SHIELD AND JUSTICE OUR SWORD or something stuffy like that. He laughed, not a phony, villian-type laugh, but a real laugh, so I knew I'd goofed. "Boy, boy. Don't talk about the courts. I be doing you a favor. I be taking what I can use of your gear, but I be letting you go. You go to court and they'll take everything and lock you up besides. I be leaving you your freedom." "Every time you open your mouth you shout that you be off one of the Ships," Horst said. "That be enough. They already have one of you brats in jail in Forton." He said, "The kid's got some good equipment. But I can't make out what saddle. "What's the name of the kid in jail in Forton." "I can't remember," he said. "But it be coming to me. Hold on." I felt like a fool. natural and mine wasn't, "The piece be yours." Then he tromped on it until it cracked and fell apart. that my ears rang. "You dirty little punk." I said calmly, "You big louse." It was a time I would have done better to keep my mouth shut. All I can face and then nothing.

<question>:
What is the Trial?

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A your chance to find a suitable partner
B your first flight away from Earth
C proving your ability to survive on your own
D defending your right to have children

<answer>:

C