"The main reason why the author invents various citizens and residents of Verbonia is to "<span>to draw readers into the story of the city's life" among other things. </span>
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be the first one, having to do with Livingstone viewing Africa as an "untapped resource", since he wanted to extract resources and explore the area. </span></span>
B.They introduced the idea that each nation had its own unique abilities.