so who ever lived in the house on top of the hill we the fairest of them all
D.
I believe it is D because he is looking at the map and is confused on where to go, he finds it impossible to tell which way he should go.
The predicate nominative in this sentence is state, because it is showing what Alaska became.
In a 1939 letter, John Steinbeck wrote that his goal for The Grapes of Wrath was “to rip a reader's nerves to rags.” Through the novel, Steinbeck wanted readers to experience the life of the Dust Bowl migrants with whom he had spent time.
