Read “in a station of the metro,” by ezra pound. the apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough. in this poem, pound is comparing “faces in the crowd” to petals that are laying against a tree branch. drowning in the rain. withstanding a storm. floating through the night sky.

In this poem, Pound is comparing "faces in the crowd" to petals that are laying against a tree branch.
This is exactly what he says in the poem - "petals on a wet, black bough." A bough is the main branch of a tree, so this is definitely the only appropriate answer in this case. He wants to say that people resemble these petals.

The answer would be d) the new managers of smalltown grocery store have become unpopular.

Both men foresaw the us as a great future power. however, they differed on the path the nation was to follow in achieving this role. while jefferson preferred an agrarian nation, hamilton favored an industrial and business intensive nation. as such, jefferson detested hamilton's idea of a strong federal government. jefferson wanted the bulk of power to rest with the states. these major views were behind polarizing washington's cabinet into two distinct factions. hamilton's followers became known as federalists and jefferson's democratic-republicans.