Excerpt from 100% - the story of a patriot
upton sinclair

something like that it was which befell peter gudge. peter was walking down the street one afternoon, when a woman approached and held out to him a printed leaflet. "read this, ," she said. and peter, who was hungry, and at odds with the world, answered gruffly: "i got no money." he thought it was an advertising dodger, and he said: "i can't buy nothin'."

but who could have foreseen that mrs. smithers would have kept count of those fried doughnuts every time anybody passed thru her pantry? and it was only that one ridiculous circumstance which had brought peter to his present misery. but for that he might have had his lunch of bread and dried herring and weak tea in the home of the shoe-maker's wife, and might have still been busy with his job of stirring up dissension in the first apostolic church.

peter's character is best described as
a) compassionate.
b) confused.
c) humble.
d) self-pitying.