The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "b. Until 1993, arsenic was used as a pesticide to control insects, fungi, weeds, and rodents. These pesticides are now prohibited by law." This is the <span>statement that directly relates to this article.</span>
It's been a while since I've read the book and I don't really a lot of the context, so just from this passage I would say it says he notices nice houses and other people's wealth and maybe envies them a little bit. (although you don't get that explicitly from this passage.)
D, there is a dense,positively charged mass in the center of an atom