My <u><em>hunch</em></u> turned out to be correct that evening... The answer is letter B. The word <em>feeling</em> is the only substitute from the alternatives that has the same meaning of the word <em>hunch </em>and can help the reader understand the meaning of the paragraph. The words guessed, bounded and daydreamed are not nouns.
It refers to the wall street crash of 1929.
<span>Because representation was proportional, small states would have fewer votes in Congress than the large state </span>