I think it is D. Possibly A but most likely D. Hope this helps :)
I don't see the underline, but I'm pretty sure that the verb is "has known". That's the present perfect tense.
Answer:
C. People often get laughed at for speaking up about deep ideas
Explanation:
According to the given excerpt from Endgame by Samuel Beckett, there is a conversation between Hamm and Clov where Hamm asks if they're not beginning to mean something, to which Clov scoffs and laughs at such suggestion. And with the introduction of a rational being, Clov drops his telescope and begins to ponder.
The theme the passage mostly clearly develops is that people often get laughed at for speaking up about deep ideas
The narrator saved him from being shot by his friends and brought it for his wife as a gift. He slowly became more friendly with everyone there- the narrator's family, the tenants and other animals in the house.
hope this helps ^^