Read the following selection and choose the best response. “When the teacher poked a shy Korean in the eyelid with a freshly sharpened pencil, we took no comfort in the fact that, unlike Hyeyoon Cho, we all know the irregular past tense of the verb to defeat. In all fairness, the teacher hadn’t meant to stab the girl, but neither did she spend much time apologizing, saying only, ‘Well, you should have been vkkdyo more kdeynfulh.’”

What inference can you make?

a) The teacher blamed the student for being in the way.

b) The teacher did not feel remorse for her actions.

c) The teacher felt sorry, but the narrator did not know all the words in her apology.

d) None of the above.