D. Is the correct answer!
Complain or protest about something in a bad-tempered but typically muted way.
Answer:
The complete sentences are:
According to Paine, the government of Great Britain will bequeath nothing that will endure to the colonists.
He also implies that the posterity of any nation has the right to blame their predecessors for their suffering.
Explanation:
The meaning of the word bequeath is to leave something after your death in a literal definition, then in the excerpt, it means that Great Britain won't leave anything of value to the colonist after they're gone.
The meaning of the word posterity in a literal way is the descendants in a family, then in here, it is mention that future generations will live in the place that their predecessors have created and will have the right to blame them if these conditions are not good.
The answer is
“A. The injustice of discrimination.”
The reason for this is that the dog is at old age, stinky and is about to die. And in the book Carlson believes his useless for that reason, and the dog was discriminated for it. The author expressed how society treats (or discriminate) people of old age, person with disabilities and minorities.