The most correct answer would be D. <span>Inhabitants of Mars looked toward Earth for various reasons, some rather obvious.
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The last sentence is textual evidence of this.
A, because to eat describes what she will do with the apple, and adjectives describe nouns (apple is a noun).
I have never read what you are asking, but just by looking at it, I would assume that he is stereotyping Dutch people, because he is calling Black Dog an insult, which is "son of a dutchman".
