Critical Reading- the answer is in the passage but I don't get the passage

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For example, in the writing section,
The oldest known civilization in the Western Hemispher, the Norte Chico civilization—having comprised— many interconnected settlements leading the the Peruvian Coast.
A.having comprised
B. comprising
C. comprised
D. was comprising of
E. had been comprised</p>

<p>I was struggling between C and D, as I usually would use “comprised of” but was D was blatantly wrong, I ignored good prose and whatnot for C, the correct answer. Nonetheless, good prose in useful in 90% of the cases! but for us in cc! nothing less than 100% is acceptable

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<p>Was this on a College Board test? While I cannot pretend to have read every official test, this type of question appears remarkably out of place. Why? Because the use of “comprised of” has become acceptable only because so many fools have repeated it incorrectly ad nauseam. It is one of those moronic aberration from which our modern languages is suffering. In itself, comprised of makes … no sense whatsoever.</p>

<p>I do not think that TCB might write a question that includes such questionable terms. </p>

<p>PS For what it is worth, the correct answer is usually the one that comprises the fewest letters! </p>