I would go with option d)
I believe it is A. It talks about forging a new nation so A seems to be the best answer.
I would go ahead with D but I am sorry if I am wrong. Please let me know if I am wrong
Major Kovaloff believes that witchcraft is what took his nose.
He knows a woman that wanted to marry her daughter to him, but he had often rejected. He thinks that to get her revenge, she "must have hired
some witches to spirit it away," which is the only way he could think his nose could have possibly disappeared.