Answer: B) Believe in yourself instead of conforming to the values of others.
Explanation: In the given passage from "Self-Reliance" we can see expressed the idea of being a nonconformist, also to not conform with seeing something that is supossed to be good, but instead to explore it and be sure that it is good. From the given options the sentence that best sums up this ideas, is the corresponding to option B: Believe in yourself instead of conforming to the values of others.
The answer would be
C: consider the title of the story. Often there is a clue in it to the authors message.
for instance, "The Declaration of Independence" what was it?
it was a declaration of independence