PTE Reading MC Single Answer
Read the passage and answer the question by selecting the correct response from the options below.
During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn’t understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Herbert Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. Dillinger, whose name once dominated the headlines, was a notorious and vicious thief. From September 1933 until July 1934, he and his violent gang terrorized the Midwest, killing 10 men, wounding 7 others, robbing banks and police arsenals, and staging 3 jailbreaks—killing a sheriff during one and wounding 2 guards in another.
Which of the following most accurately summarizes the opinion of the author in the text?