Secret meeting of Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson.
The excerpt gives us these:
They valued perseverance, bravery, and strength.
They believed the gods were active in people’s lives.
The correct answer is D. Even if you've never handled a trowel in your life, we're asking for you assistance.
because its a dependent clause and cannot stand alone and complex sentences are made up of dependent and independent clauses.
Hope this helps.
C. Education beyond high school versus education beyond college because in the other examples you can't really use those topics because there isn't really much about them, but in example C. you can tell the two similarities in both the high school and college, and you could put there differences. Hope I helped!