Answer:
the mood is bitter and rebellious
Explanation:
they are poor and must work extremely hard for everything they have.
A. Posters about safety hangs in every office in Town Hall.
The idea discussed in both Tim O'Brien's "Ambush" and John Steinbeck's "Symptoms" is the after effects of the combat on the soldiers after a war is over. It talks about what the soldiers go through, their pain and their turmoil once they come back from having faced a war.
The answer would be A. Acknowledging British authority helped keep social Order on the boat.