I put C on my test because it seem most logical plus I couldn't find much to help me.
Answer: I think he’s basically saying like explain the story in your own words or something like that
Explanation:
Are you missing part of the question or is this simply a fun fact
Well I can answer what the word beast suggests about the text.
I think it is suggests that they don't know much about the people of Mars, the life forms that lived there so they are frightened of them. They know that they are intelligent, or were, but also acknowledge how the planet is nearly impossible to sustain life with all of its water frozen.
Hope that helped, I don't know much about English class in highschool yet so I wasn't sure exactly how to answer the question.