Answer:
The correct answer is Option D, "By being presentable and appearing able-bodied, the individuals still had hope they could escape a terrible fate". That was the message that Spiegelman trying to convey in the panel. Generally speaking, Spiegelman sees the Jews as the innocent prey and the Nazis as the cunning predators.
The antecedent of a pronoun is basically the noun that a pronoun replaces, AKA the noun that the pronoun refers to. It should be somewhere before the pronoun in the sentence. In the sentence "Strikers will return to work when the union representative has completed their name negotiation," the pronoun is "their." Whose name negotiation is being completed? The strikers. This could read, "Strikers will return to work when the union representative has completed THE STRIKERS' name negotiation." That works! So, the pronoun "their" refers to the strikers.
Answer: strikers
A characteristic of informal writing is slang, abbreviations, short hand, or lack of punctuation.
Mean-kind nice caring generous
friendly-unfriendly unkind horrible
strong-feeble weak powerless
A semicolons NEVER should be used to try to create a "pause" longer than that achieved by a comma. If you can use a period correctly, then you can use a semicolon correctly. A semicolon is used just like a period, but it is used to separate two complete sentences when the sentences are closely related in meaning.
