The Answer is C.
This is why. The word 'literal' can be defined simply as "face value". For example if some one says I literally haven't slept all night. You would see that this means they have not slept at all.
As per women’s point of view, to protect Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters decide to hide<u> the dead bird</u>.
The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell deals with the issues of the women. The identity of a women is mocked by the men in the play who believe a woman can only be recognized by her husband’s identity. The female characters in the play are named by their husband’s name. the moment when Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters understood the murder mystery, they decided to hide the evidence. They found the pet dead the same way as her husband. Hence, they concluded with the idea to hide the evidence to rescue Mrs. Wright as she was the suspect of her husband’s murder.
The two subjects of the sentence are Colonel Lloyd and his "finely cultivated garden".
the answer would probably be C from what I think