I believe the answer is C. Even though they can all be good.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
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infinitives:    Jack likes <em><u>to eat</u></em> pizza, <em><u>to play</u></em> football, and <u><em>to read</em></u> comics.
gerunds:      Jack likes <u><em>eating</em></u> pizza, <u>playing</u> football, and <u>reading</u> comics.
nouns:          Jack likes <u><em>pizza</em></u>, <em><u>football</u></em>, and <em><u>comics</u></em>.
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What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!
There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a nght to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.
Explanation:
The two excerpts above impose a sense of knowledge, power and freedom. This is because we can see that the above excerpt shows a narrator free to act, feel and think according to his own conception and his own principles, using his own opinions. This ability is achieved when an individual is able to free himself from an interminably limiting and weighting oppression.