Answer:
C. As a stickler about statistics, I was disturbed by Mr. Schlosser's
cavalier manipulation of data, which produced some startling -
and, frankly, unbelievable
"facts."
What makes us happy is....
Odysseus in "The Odyssey" by Homer is a dynamic character.
A MacGuffin is that object in a film which is critical to the characters, but carries insignificant meaning for the audience.
A MacGuffin, a term introduced and widely used by Alfred Hitchcock is some element which drives the plot. The audience is not very concerned with the specifics of it.
The author converts joy in the excerpt by using irony in the situation of it being so hot they have to fan themselves then, ironically they start singing a song titled heatwave
