Option B. absconded
absconded - leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as a theft.
Example: The cashier abscond the money secretly because her mother is seriously ill.
Repeating (or repetition) is not a component of active listening. It can be a mechanical process, devoid of understanding. Many people repeat some phrases just to show that they are listening, when in fact they are not. All the other components presume that the listener has received the message and processed it.
Answer:
The statement is OK.
Explanation:
Checking whether there is a case of plagiarism in an academic paper in the MLA format, the given statement is from one of the student samples provided alongside the passage.
The given passage/ statement mentions how Salman Rushdie finds the scene of The Wizard of Oz. This student sample of the text provides a given opinion of the famed writer, which may act as one of the sources of the academic research paper. And by indicating the quoted words with the (" ") symbol, there is no case of plagiarism. Rather, this is the correct way of stating a given line when quoted from another source. So, the given student sample is free from any plagiarism issues.