On a certain night the moon in its waning phase was a half-moon. At midnight the moon will be
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The waning half moon is 3 weeks old, it rises at about midnight. All celestial objects appear to rise in the east and set in the west because of the rotation of the earth. Therefore, from your choices, the answer would be 1, on the eastern horizon.
I guess that doesn't fully answer your question, which is different from the question you reference. The moon rises about 48 minutes later each day. When the moon is full it rises as the sun sets because it is... full. 3 weeks later you have 21 days * 48 minutes = 1008 minutes or about 17 hours. If the sun sets at 6pm then the moon will rise about 17 hours later, and about an hour later, at midnight, it will be just above the eastern horizon. Hope that makes more sense :)