|Question 11Verbal

Source Texts

Text
The Underdogs is a 1915 novel by Mariano Azuela, originally written in Spanish. In the novel, Azuela depicts a traveling group of soldiers as having a renewed sense of agency and authority as they set off on a new stage of their journey:
Which quotation from a translation of The Underdogs most effectively illustrates the claim?
"The sonorous, joyful bells rang again. From within the church, the honeyed voices of a female chorus rose melancholy and grave."
A
"All day long [the soldiers] rode through the canyon, up and down the steep, round hills, dirty and bald as a man's head, hill after hill in endless succession. At last, late in the afternoon, they descried several stone church towers in the heart of a bluish ridge, and, beyond, the white road with its curling spirals of dust and its gray telegraph poles."
B
"The men threw out their chests as if to breathe the widening horizon, the immensity of the sky, the blue from the mountains and the fresh air, redolent with the various odors of the sierra. They spurred their horses to a gallop as if in that mad race they laid claims of possession to the earth."
C
"Before Juchipila was lost from sight, Valderrama got off his horse, bent down, kneeled, and gravely kissed the ground."
D