What is surprising about the setting of the circle of Hell that the narrator visits in the selection from the Divine Comedy? A. It is crowded.
B. It is fiery.
C. It is dark.
D. It is icy.

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.

two possessive pronouns (one plural pronoun and the other a singular pronoun)

it depends on the natural disaster. a good one you can choose are hurricanes. water vapor is the "gas" and warm fronts are the "spark". because of the global warming that humans have caused with green house gases, hurricanes have become more frequent and stronger, making them more dangerous.