The correct one is b. innocent child
<span>"decapitation of the government" is the idiom Jay Winik used in the second paragraph. The idiom's intended meaning is the severance of the top government officials from the remainder of civil society through assassination. I think the idiom was chosen to add a grave visual description of the sense of the moment.</span>
The two sentences that correctly used a dash are the
following:<span>
- The secret to improving your productivity is
simple--get a good night's rest.
- I found something unexpected in my trash
can--a litter of raccoons.
<span>Dashes are used in the sentence when there is an
added information that is not generally part of the sentence.</span></span>
