D. Alice stood up at her desk and said ...
<span>C: She is being modest because they aren’t married yet. </span>
The correct answer is option C: It contains one independent clause and one dependent clause.
- The independent clause is: <em>"The hikers decided to make camp before reaching the summit".</em>
- The dependent clause is: "<em>Because night was approaching rapidly"</em>. It is introduced by the subordinating conjunction <em>because</em>.
- <em>"After a strenous climb"</em> is a phrase.
B.
There have been times in history when violence was necessary to resolve mankind’s problems, but the Civil Rights Movement is not one of those moments.