D, "Gregor's father forces Gregor back into his room by threatening to hit him with a stick and a newspaper" is the correct answer!
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A) The caustic, bitter remarks about the company CEO in the newspaper were obviously slanderous.
The word slanderous is defined as malicious and false. Caustic is defined as sarcastic which in turn can be false and similarly, bitter is defined as angry and hurt which in turn can be malicious.