The fascinators had the commands of working, playing and sleeping for eight hours a day printed under each of them. The idea was to systematize their lives and deprived them from the priviledge of thinking. There was a third of the day which had to be dedicated to the most basic activities in life.
A compound predicate has a subject in the sentence that is doing more than one action and is shared by two or more verbs, plus a conjunction.
So I would say the answer is B
The effect of an omniscient third-person narration would be (C) The reader would have a better understanding of the thoughts and opinions of the Aulds.
This narrator, oblivious to what happens, tells everything that occurs to the characters. Knows the characters in a very intimate way and give an account of their most recondite thoughts. Usually equate to a god: a being who sees everything, knows everything.
