The answer would be a because many of the gold diggers actually didn't find gold. hope this helped :3
I would say the first sentence is grammatically correct
Answer: horizontally or vertically
The excerpt that shows the low self-esteem of the
soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery
from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," is the sentence “ The
three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I
might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better
and so we drifted apart.”