We can use the process of elimination to find the correct answer. There was nothing in the passage that signified the character hoping or wishing for anything, and it didn't explain his mood to be positive. He wasn't exactly being "adventurous", because it's not like he actually wandered off into the woods to hunt or such things as that. Option D. is irrelevant, because there was nothing arounf him to act in such ways to, and nothing was being cruel and callous toward him.
The reasonable option would be option C. becaus ehe used the things that he had handy and avaliable immidiatly to his exposure for increased change of "survival", until his car could possibly be repaired.
The tone for Macbeth's speech is immediately set after hearing of the death of Lady Macbeth. Having lost his queen, and seeing his hopes turn to ashes, the bitter Macbeth now comments on life in caustic words.