The poem describes Yuri Gagarin's first human trip into outer space (April 12, 1961) - and suggests that this flight was some kind of a triumph for humankind (Vostok's capsule clambers / Up the tall victory column).
I think the answer is Probably A
I say it is enterprising.
What Hawthorne cares about, and it comes up constantly throughout the book, is the inheritance that accompanies the Pyncheons and lead them down to a bitter path: "weakness, defects, dark passions, the tendency to do the evil and the moral weaknesses that lead to crime pass from one generation to another".
