The answer is A. The Russian revolution. The whole book is about it. Each of the animals represents an important person from that time.
Hello, Divine Comedy consists of three books; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In each book, he witnesses levels of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven to see what the souls of the deceased have in store based on their actions on Earth. With this in mind, this means your answer is A, since Dante travels through the afterlife and witnesses how people are punished and rewarded.
B. a child begging for a game he has wanted for a long time
Beseeching means to beg for something anxiously