Difficult and confusing writing questions

<p>@WasatchWriter‌

  1. Because they painted the scenes of life as ordinary people live it, (rather than) scenes from myths, many american artists differed from early times.
    Why is rather then incorrect?
  2. The conservation organization requested that its researchers [refrain from] giving out information [in regards to] the location of the rare holly bushes [for] fear that people [would move] them to private gardens.
    B is the answer. How can B be changed in order to be idiomatic?
  3. Elizabeth Bishop’s unpublished manuscripts contain many unfinished drafts; [some she intended] to rewrite, [but others] she [never meant] to publish, [having lay] them aside as mementoes of the past
    I correctly chose D since D sounded extremely awkward and somewhat erroneous to me; however i dont understand the sentence structure of the part after semicolon and how can D be corrected.
    Thanks in advance</p>