What’s the answer because i don’t know it

The answer is either Authority or Evidence but I am 87.8% sure that the answer is evidence because it is talking about that it is leading evidence to the girls ugly speculation about there character.

Therefore your answer would be,

Evidence

d) the narrator even suggested that the white whale, moby d, was ubiquitous and present in every ocean at every moment.  

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."