Answer:
the answer is a. by having algernon behave rudely
Explanation:
The next day he was so hungry that he began to eat one of the old withered apples, and as he bit it he thought of the bird, his fellow prisoner.
The correct answer is that he is D. indicating what happens to tribes that don't unite against the whites.
We know this because immediately afterwards he is answering his question: "They have vanished before the avarice[greed] and oppression of the white men" - so he says that this might also happen to the others.