Why is the professor excited about the prospecting of being inside of an erupting volcano? a. he can write about it in scientific journals. b. it is their only way out. c. this way he can go out in a blaze of glory. d. he is annoyed by harry’s whining and hopes that he will fall off the raft into the lava.

The Answer is: It is their only way out.

"Yes," replied the Professor, looking at me calmly from under his spectacles, "it is the only chance which remains to us of ever escaping from the interior of the earth to the light of day."

B.) It is there only way out.

Explanation:

I had this on a lesson and I got it right after using this answer.

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.