It helps to understand the plot of the story
A reader of Jane Smiley's fiction expect the work to be set in D) the southwest. Most of the fiction novel written by Jane Smiley's has the Midwestern as its place background setting, A Thousand Acres and Moo University for example<span>. "A Thousand Acres" story take place at a farm in Iowa and "Moo University" take place in somewhere in the Midwest. Therefore, the Southwest is the most suitable answer.</span>
I think the first one. it says active but barely moving his arms
