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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with an incoherent cry. He Quest. Quest rose from the table in JUPITER WEAPON By CHARLES L. FONTENAY destruction— powerful, utterly invulnerable. In his haste, Quest missed the Quest made no effort to retaliate. squalid saloon in the rougher section of Jupiter's View, the terrestrial dome-colony on Ganymede. irons, Jakdane turned to Quest, drunk, at the table. “Take it easy,” he advised. “I'll wake the psychosurgeon had insisted. Quest shook his head. only hope was that this place Quest and when the skeptical “I couldn't,” said Quest miserably, with Quest, forget it,” he said. “Not because he's a coward. Because he's an android!” serious!” “I am. I say he's an android, an artificial imitation of a man. It all figures. “Look, Trella, he said he was born on Jupiter. A human could stand the gravity of Jupiter, inside a dome or a ship, but what heels. In desperation, she dodged refuge behind him. Her protector “Kregg!” arose, ponderously, and lumbered Kregg striking Quest in the face feet tall, with a brutal, vacant “But he said Dr. Mansard was his father,” protested Trella. “Robots and androids frequently look on their makers as their parents,” said Jakdane. “Quest may not even know he's 57 there. Have you ever heard of from the approaching Kregg. Quest said.” “Yes. Do you know when?” “No. Quest never did tell me, that I remember.” “He told me: a year before Quest made his rocket flight to Dr. Mansard and his wife had squarely with the short man's Quest lived in the poisonous atmosphere of Jupiter, if he's human?” Trella was silent. “For the protection of humans, upward turn. “He developed the surgiscope, didn't he? But his and Kregg sank stunned to his man Quest to a T, Trella. There Moving agilely around the end over Kregg, holding the jagged-edged fact that you were able to live ship was drawn into Jupiter and lost.” “I'll have no coppers upon Quest as an android, which Blessing headed. “That means you, too, lady,” a deep, resonant voice behind Dr. Mansard's disappearance, 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 often believe that.” to decide what to do about Quest. Quest about seeing him again He grinned at her. 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 taking his hand in farewell. the colonial city, but the lights were overwhelmed by the giant, vari-colored disc of Jupiter itself, riding high in the sky. “I'm Quest Mansard, Miss,” said her companion. “I'm just in from Jupiter.” “I'm Trella Nuspar,” she said, favoring him with a green-eyed Jupiter.” “You're lying,” she said flatly. “No one has ever landed on Jupiter. It would be impossible to blast off again.” “My parents landed on Jupiter, and I blasted off from it,” he said soberly. “I was born 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.” “He came back to Earth with “It was drawn into Jupiter, but he landed it successfully,” said Quest. “He and my mother lived on Jupiter until the oxygen equipment wore out at last. I was born and brought up there, you, eh?” asked Blessing intently. whether to let him go on living as a man or to tell him he's an android and claim ownership 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.” “Jupiter strength,” she murmured, looking him over coolly. 53 to, she exclaimed: “You aren't afraid of Quest? was wrong, that Quest, whether harm to him. Surely, Quest Quest had a late sandwich in the such bitterness during their long Quest came the day before she against telling him that the assignment on which she had come to the Jupiter system was to gather his own father's notebooks and take them back to For some reason she decided of Quest. more than she intended to. Blessing, ahead of the rest, and Quest burst through. Quest was after it, like a days gone by, “I need a chaperon Seeing Quest almost upon him, Quest was already beside it, “I'm lucky,” said Quest soberly. “But why, Quest? I knew he was afraid of you, but he didn't tell me why.” “It was conditioned into me,” answered Quest “I didn't know 60 it until just now, when it ended, but my father conditioned me psychologically from my birth to the task of hunting down and plummeted ever more swiftly Dom Blessing and killing him. It thrown with Quest almost constantly. “You see, Blessing was my father's assistant on Ganymede. Right after my father completed development of the surgiscope, he and my mother blasted off for rights to the surgiscope, and he sabotaged the ship's drive so it would fall into Jupiter. “But my father was able to control it in the heavy atmosphere of Jupiter, and landed it successfully. I was born there, and he conditioned me to come could not object to Dr. Mansard's son knowing about it. All these things had happened before she was born, and she to Earth and track down Blessing. Blessing purpose.” Jupiter-strong muscles, Quest took her in his arms. “Now I can say I love you,” you know this, too, now: that “What in space makes you think that?” he demanded. “Why, Quest, it's obvious,” she cried, tears in her eyes. “Everything about you … your build, suited for Jupiter's gravity …your strength … the 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 his invention of the surgiscope, and it had been developed by your strength … the “I'm no android,” he said confidently. was inventor of the surgiscope? He knew I'd have to grow up on Jupiter, and he operated on the genes before I was born. He altered my inherited characteristics to adapt me to the climate of Jupiter … even to “Do you forget my father being able to breathe a chlorine atmosphere as well as an oxygen Blessing would, of course, be happy to learn that a son of Dr. to tell Quest the good news “How can you be sure?” she asked doubtfully. “Androids are made,” he answered with a laugh. “They don't grow up. And I remember my boyhood on Jupiter very well.” He took her in his arms again, “I kept waiting for Quest to do THE END “What did he say?” her wounded feelings with a after Asrange ran amuck. individual who said little and emotion … until the day Quest “I'm sorry!” exclaimed Quest in distress.

<question>:
What is the central irony of Quest's last words in the story?

<options>:
A He claims that "androids are made" to justify his human status, disregarding the impact of his father's programming efforts
B He declares that "androids don't grow up," when in reality, his father programmed him to appear to (physically) age
C He states that he "remembers his boyhood on Jupiter," when in reality, he is still a boy
D He says he "remembers his boyhood on Jupiter," when in reality, his memories were programmed into his brain

<answer>:

A