The river did not jump over the mountain because rivers cannot jump over mountains that’s is fake that is fake news and that defies to law of gravity
The answer is D
I would look up the word cultivation if I needed the definition, the current usage. I think that when everyone guesses something they always want to know if they are right . So because of all of that D is the answer.
Cultivation:
"The action of cultivating land"
I believe what he meant was that his belief in god was dead and that god to him was dead. Just like how many Jews were dying so was their hopes and beliefs due to their circumstances they were facing at the time.