Review the sentence:
Stuart wiggled his foot, drummed the desk with his pencil, and __________,
but he could not burn off the caffeine-induced energy from an extra-large
cup of coffee.
The blank needs to begin with a simple past tense verb. You chose his jaw worked a mouthful of gum, which is a main clause and thus causes a parallelism error.
Before you continue, review the rules for parallel structure.