Did the Alliance Israelite Universelle operate any academic institutions in northwestern Turkey in the year 1890? Who was Mehmed Talaat, and why was he arrested in 1893? Instead of being sent to prison, what alternative fate befell him? Who was Emannuel Carasso, and who sent him to Salonica, Macedonia, in the early 1890s. For what purpose was he sent? Was the Armenian Genocide of 1915 a macabre Jewish celebration of the overthrow of the Turkish Sultan in 1908?

idk if you found them already or not but you probably did but the one closer to sea level is raleigh.

d. i assume the underlined word is "role." reformat if it isn't.

explanation:

role is closest to part because when replacing words, "playing a vital decision," "playing a vital activity," and "playing a vital dollar" don't make logical sense. the only meaningful choice is "playing a vital part."

this fits one of merriam-webster's definitions of role: "a function or part performed especially in a particular operation or process."