C is the awnser i think sorry if not
<span>A. My mechanical engineering instructor is constantly playing practical jokes on students
If the intention of the essay is to entertain, this essay seems like it would certainly do that. It looks to be setting up a description of what those practical jokes were and how they impacted his class. </span>
The correct answer is fictional
He was not a great young man who fell in love with a local native. He invaded their village and took her by force. She was much much younger than him and he was pretty bad to all the natives and to her. What we take as a story about them is really prettied up to seem better.
There is only one prepositional phrase among these options, and that would be <em>under bridges. </em>The correct answer is C.
A prepositional phrase is the one which follows a preposition, in this case the word <em>under.</em>