input: Text: CAPTAIN CHAOS By D. ALLEN MORRISSEY Science equipped David Corbin with borrowed time; sent him winging out in a state of suspension to future centuries... to a dark blue world whose only defense was to seal tight the prying minds of foolish interlopers. I heard the voice as I opened my eyes. I was lying down, still not aware of where I was, waiting for the voice. "Your name is David Corbin. Do you understand?" I looked in the direction of the sound. Above my feet a bulkhead loomed. There were round dials set in a row above a speaker. Over the mesh-covered speaker, two knobs glowed red. I ran the words over in my sluggish mind, thinking about an answer. The muscles in my throat tightened up in reflex as I tried to bring some unity into the jumble of thoughts and ideas that kept forming. One word formed out of the rush of anxiety. "No." I shouted a protest against the strangeness of the room. I looked to the right, my eyes following the curving ceiling that started at the cot. The curve met another straight bulkhead on the left. I was in a small room, gray in color, like dull metal. Overhead a bright light burned into my vision. I wondered where in the universe I was. "Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your right." I stared at the speaker in the wall. The mesh-covered hole and the two lights looked like a caricature of a face, set in a panel of dials. I twisted my head to look for the button. I pushed away from the close wall but I couldn't move. I reached down to the tightness that held my body, found the wide strap that
  Question: Why is David Corbin on the ship in the first place?
  
   (A) He has to direct his crew to an area with potentially large amounts of natural resources.
   (B) He has to direct his crew to an area with potentially habitable planets.
   (C) He's a doctor who has to tend to the other crew members who were medically sedated.
   (D) He has to direct his crew home to Earth on the tail end of their intergalactic voyage.
  Answer:
output: He has to direct his crew to an area with potentially habitable planets.