Excerpt from Marco Polo Part 2
John H. Haaren

4 The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea. It was a long and perilous voyage. Stops were made at Borneo, Sumatra, Ceylon and other places, until the ships entered the Persian Gulf and the princess was safely landed. After they reached the capital of Persia the party, including the three Venetians, by the Persians for weeks in a magnificent manner and costly presents to all.
The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea. It was a long and perilous voyage.

Which correctly uses a semicolon to link these two sentences?

A) The fleet with the wedding; on board sailed southward on the China Sea, was a long and perilous voyage.
B) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea: It was a long and perilous voyage.
C) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea; it was a long and perilous voyage.
D) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea however; it was a long and perilous voyage.
Eliminate

In this excerpt from "quality" by john galsworthy, which two parts clearly indicate the literary point of view of the essay? that tenement had a certain quiet distinction; there was no sign upon its face that he made for any of the royal family—merely his own german name of gessler brothers; and in the window a few pairs of boots. i remember that it always troubled me to account for those unvarying boots in the window, for he made only what was ordered, reaching nothing down, and it seemed so inconceivable that what he made could ever have failed to fit. had he bought them to put there? that, too, seemed inconceivable. he would never have tolerated in his house leather on which he had not worked himself. besides, they were too beautiful—the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years. those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the soul of boot—so truly were they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot-gear. these thoughts, of course, came to me later, though even when i was promoted to him, at the age of perhaps fourteen, some inkling haunted me of the dignity of himself and brother. for to make boots—such boots as he made—seemed to me then, and still seems to me, mysterious and wonderful.