The type of sentence given is a compound sentence. It is a compound sentence because it consists of two independent sentences: "I already said yes to someone else" and "I can't go to the dance with you". In order to link the two sentences, the conjunction "because" is used.
It is apparently D, because at this point travelling years on the ocean hasn't made Odysseus hasty enough to want to return to his wife and child, and so he is now risking the lives of him and his crew for no reason other than the high of a con. Odysseus is kind of a dork, not gonna lie. His wife has to put up with a ton of manipulative people people vying for her hand in marriage and trying to kill her son, and he takes a leisurely route across the ocean meeting beautiful women and fighting gods.
A compound sentence consists of 2 independent clauses. Meanwhile, a complex sentence consists of 1 independent and 1 or more dependent clauses.
1. complex sentence
2. compound sentence
3. complex sentence
4. compound sentence
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<span>B. Schools should move away from standardized testing because tests often do more harm than good.
It stays on the topic of testing and is simplistic.</span>