C: Soviet Union, hope this helps :)
I think the best answer would be D. motif.
<span>Archetype is a very typical example of something, such as Hitler could be an archetype of evil. In a story-telling, archetype is a recurrent symbol or motif such as a typical good person or a typical bad person. </span>
...Charged very high prices to move farm products to market
The farmers felt the railroads had monopoly power over them. The farmers essentially had no choice but to send their crops to market on trains. There was not much, if any, competition on most short-line tracks that went through farm areas. Therefore, most farmers had to simply accept whatever price railroads charged to transport crops. Farmers felt the railroads could gouge them by charging high prices and that they, the farmers, had no recourse when this happened. They blamed much of their trouble on this monopoly power.
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union<span> (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.</span>