Answer:
upsetting
Explanation:
I feel like upsetting matches troublesome more than the others
The answer is: C.It illustrates information from scientific studies.
Dan Pink in “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” illustrates information from scientific studies such as the experiment on primates from Harry F. Harlow's that shows how the ability to complete a task is linked with rewards and punishments to support his main point as “Motivation 2.0”.
Irving writes that no one really knows what happened to Tom's wife, however when Tom finds the missing checked cloth with a heart and liver inside and observes the scene near it, he concludes that his wife must have battled the devil and eventually lost--not easily, though, because Tom notices that there were
"many prints of cloven feet deeply stamped about the tree, and several handsful of hair, that looked as if they had been plucked from the coarse black shock of the woodsman. Tom knew his wife's prowess by experience."
The description is ironic on a couple of counts. First, the fact that Tom's wife was so stingy and stubborn that she would have given the devil a harsh time bargaining and fighting fits into Irving's typical, ironic description of the nagging wife. Secondly, the last sentence refers back to the abuse that Tom often suffered at the hands of his wife, and he almost sympathizes for the devil in regards to the battle between him and Mrs. Walker.
