Answer:
B. Low-performing Swedish teens improved their grades and social skills after gaming for a year.
Explanation:
While all four pieces of evidence support the author's claim, there is no mention of answer choice B in his passage. Slightly-altered wording of answer choices A, C, and D can all be found in the passage, therefore the answer is B. Low-performing Swedish teens improved their grades and social skills after gaming for a year.
Chapter 29 of The Grapes of Wrath is an "inner" chapter and, therefore, short and lyrical in style. It is also a Biblical-styled chapter, as it depicts the Great Flood that is used as counterpoint to the Dust Bowl chapters earlier. Steinback makes use of pathetic fallacy (weather to depict emotional tone) as the apocalyptic weather is a kind of purgation--an excessive baptism that brings death across the land.