Answer- D. a great piece of cold hard steel as thick as a man’s finger to be pushed into ones mouth
I would say that sometimes you would not 'identify' a mistake in your head. Also if you read it out loud you might realize how it does not make sense in your sentence.
Hope this helped!
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1. White people wanted their land2. Diseases (bubonic plague, chicken pox and pneumonic plague)3. buffalos being killed in large groups.