Answer: c. Nevertheless
<em>Nevertheless</em> means "in spite of." It indicates that despite the circumstances of the first sentence, the second sentence occurred (against all odds). In this example, the students did not study hard, so the expected result is for them to fail. However, they passed, which means that the circumstances of the first sentence were not an obstacle for the events of the second sentence to occur.
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He tries to choke him with Tiresias's walking stick, and he thinks he is crazy yet later when he finds out what Tiresias says was true he finds proof which leads to the suicide of Jocasta his mother/wife and he gags his eyes out with her dress pins (I don't know what they are called) later on he is exiled.
Answer: a medical research facility
Explanation: With a bit of reading I found it was a medical research facility