All the following planks of the populist party platform were later accepted by americans except
a. the graduated income tax
b. direct election of u. s. senators
c. the use of the secret ballot
d. government ownership of telegraph and telephone industries

your answer is b. "with strong wording encouraging readers to take action."

c

explanation:

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)

demonstrative would be the answer.