Read the passage from Chapter 20 which begins at the beginning of the chapter and end “Reverend Sykes had saved our seats” carefully before you choose your answers.

Scout’s unfinished sentences (“‘Then you pretend …’”; “‘I didn’t mean to be—‘“) reflect her

A. inability to articulate her ideas

B. astonishment at Mr. Raymond’s politeness

C. confusion between reality and her assumptions

D. anger at being proven wrong

E. shyness in dealing with strangers