Paine says that it is irrational and absurd for such a huge amount of land with practically unlimited resources, to be dominated by such a small island. So basically he said that the argument lacks evidence and ethos
The answer to the multiple choice question you have presented above would be letter c. the Proctor's home. eight days after the girls have begun to accuse people. The setting of Act II of The Crucible were mostly in the Proctor's home.
