Read the below excerpts from A Long Way from Chicago to answer the below questions.
61 “Mrs. Dowdel, I knew you would stand and deliver!” Mrs. Weidenbach clasped her 62 hands. “And remember, even the red ribbon for second prize will be better than 63 nothing.” Grandma gazed past her, seeming to count the corpses on the flypaper strip.
10 “Didn’t put any in,” Grandma said.
11 “Ah well, you were wise.” Mrs. Weidenbach’s forehead began to look
12 slick. It wasn’t just the heat. “Mrs. Dowdel, I’ll come clean. I don’t think I
13 better enter my bread-and-butter pickles this year, and I’m going to tell you
14 why. The depression is upon us. Times are hard.”
15 “They was never easy for me,” Grandma recalled.
16 “And quite unfairly,” Mrs. Weidenbach said, “people blame the bankers.”
17 “My stars,” Grandma said. “The bank forecloses on people’s farms
18 and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.”
19 “Now, Mrs. Dowdel, don’t be like that.” Mrs. Weidenbach reached down
20 the front of her dress and plucked up a lace handkerchief.
Which method of characterization does the author use in lines 61–63 to describe Mrs. Weidenbach?
A) a direct comment about her
B) Another character's opinion about her
C) Her own words
D) Her own thoughts
Based on Grandma’s words in lines 10–19, you can infer that she views Mrs. Weidenback as:
A) dangerous
B) lazy
C) reckless
D) insensitive
