I think the answer is the second choice; bashing.
Basically what it says no cruel or unusual punishment and excessive fines an example would be like being fined 4 million dollars for refusing to pay a ticket and imprisonment for 50 years
Alien means something is completely foreign to you. You don't necessarily know anything about it while familiar means it's something you know well. I am familiar with the Hunger Games series because I've read it. However, I have never read Don't Cry so its alien to me. They are complete opposite words, they're antonyms.
