After hearing Lewis's description about the way the team leaders ate the extra cookies, it can be inferred that when you receive power, especially when you feel it was given to you arbitrarily, you assume you deserve more and better things than the rest of the people. You behold yourself as a lucky person, and lucky people have the right of grabbing other people's production.
Alcott most likely begin the chapter with character dialogue to keep the momentum of the story going. In order to preserve the set pace of the story, author decided to continue dialogue that started in previous chapter. When dividing the story on chapters, she wanted to hide this 'gap', that readers usualy feel between them.
The answers from the choices above are the 2nd option and the 3rd option!
