Please help me this is based on the romeo and juliet prologue. I don’t know

Pls, i really need on this question?

What task did the surveyors do? a. they studied the landscape to determine the most direct route for building a road. b. they designed treadmills that lifted blocks of stone to where they were needed. c. they dug trenches and filled them with sand, concrete, and large blocks to form a road.

How does edward covey attempt to break douglass’s spirit?