|Question 10Verbal

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The following text is adapted from Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Aunt Polly is having dinner with Tom, her mischievous young nephew.

Aunt Polly asked [Tom] questions that were full of guile, and very deep-for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.
Which choice best describes how Aunt Polly is presented in the text?
The narrator characterizes Aunt Polly as being excessively nosy about other people's private lives.
A
The narrator emphasizes that Aunt Polly's intentions are good even when her behavior is rude.
B
The narrator gently makes fun of Aunt Polly's mistaken confidence in her subtlety.
C
The narrator humorously exaggerates Aunt Polly's view of herself as an intellectual.
D