Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from a translation of …

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The Clouds is a 423 BCE play by Aristophanes, originally written in ancient Greek. At the time, professional intellectuals called sophists taught customers rhetorical techniques to use in public speaking, along with providing instruction in other subjects. In the play, Aristophanes satirizes sophists as having an exaggerated sense of their own wisdom, as seen when the character _______

Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from a translation of The Clouds to illustrate the claim?

Socrates, a sophist, says to a customer, “You talk nonsense. Begone; I can’t teach you any longer.”

Strepsiades says of a sophist business, “There dwell men who in speaking of the heavens persuade people that it is an oven, and that it encompasses us, and that we are the embers. These men teach, if one give them money, to conquer in speaking, right or wrong.”

Strepsiades encourages his son to learn to be a sophist, saying, “Go, I entreat you, dearest of men, go and be taught.”

Socrates, a sophist, says to a new customer, “Come, then, take care that, whenever I propound any clever dogma about abstruse matters, you [seize] immediately.”