(D) Pretty much souds correct to me .
Explanation:
The narrator speaks to the reader, saying, "as you I will apprise." Then, two lines later, this context clue appears: "Before yet farther in this tale I place." This clue suggests that "apprise" is a verb that gives some information to the reader before too much time passes.
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Answer C:
While the colony commanders were generally optimistic, as their task was to send the settler groups and hope for the best, the settlers had many other issues.
Despite the beauty and abundance of this new land, its wild and unknown aspects (hostile natives, new diseases, wild beasts) inspired both hope and fear to the settlers.
And the excerpt, from the begging, explores these feelings making the questions that the settlers might have asked themselves when entering Virginia.
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