D) "'It was worth at most only five hundred francs!'"
The way it is said with an exclamation point is they are surprised that it is worth that much.
Melancholy would mean sadness, so the answer is B
Answer:
The answer is "to provide."
Explanation:
The sentence "The purpose of this workshop is _____ new employees with all the necessary information" requires an infinitive to be completed. An infinitive is the basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense. "To provide" is an infinitive, and thus completes the sentence properly.