Which sentence in this excerpt from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway is the contextual meaning of the phrase “take up”

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

People who are frugal do well financially because they don’t

Which statement accurately interprets kafka's viewpoint and his means of expressing it in the text