I believe it is 1, Compound Sentence. You can tell because if you take the ",or" out, it is still two complete sentences!
Which excerpt are we referring to with this?
Skim the passage and find key words. if you have a word bank or vocab list, find them and highlight or underline them. look for repeating words and try to figure out why they appear often. usually the repeating words are important to the passage.
