The speaker believe that people is to act independently and in control of one's own life
Recalcitrant means to have an uncooperative attitude toward authority of discipline so the most likely answer would be b. agreeable
Assuming your options are <em>infinitives, repetition, adjectives, and punctuation, </em>the correct answer is infinitives.
The answer is rather simple when you think about it - there are no infinitives in this passage, so obviously they cannot contribute to any mood. There are repetitions (the word fog is constantly being repeated), there are a lot of adjectives, and some punctuation marks - all of which contribute to the dreariness of this excerpt.
