In answering a multiple choice question, first try to predict the answer. Then look for the choice closest to it. If you aren't sure, then try to eliminate choices you know are wrong. In this question, there is nothing in the excerpt to support either choice A or C. When you read choice B, you might have remembered that there was something in the passage about chickens. But you needed to notice the details. What the passage actually says is that the newcomers had neither a garden nor a chicken-house.