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The correct answer is A and that i is boy would have knocked their ball down by throwing the sticks as tree was too high to climb.
As the given passage providing the information the tree was big in height and the ball stuck on very high on the brunch of trees and the boys were not able to climb the tree to bring the ball down so they use the sticks .
And author want to show that the boy not want to put their life in danger due to height of the tree and not want to prevent any kind of injuries too.so to prevent the accident they uses the sticks to bring the balls down.
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