What is the claim in this excerpt?

Answer the question find a book and find the answer to this question

Is the sentence the refree blew her whistle and both teams rushed onto the field a coumpound or simple sentence

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went