Which of the following is an example of the active listening skill of clarifying?
a. trung leans slightly forward as he listens to others.
b. trung asks questions that demonstrate his desire to understand other points of view.
c. trung asks the other person to explain a point more completely.
d. trung expresses his own perspective after he has heard the other person.
e. trung pauses to think about what he has heard and then paraphrases it.

Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. my silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the ac’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer. the coach, in a slight accent neither british nor australian, is telling c.t. that the whole application-interface process, while usually just a pleasant formality, is probably best accentuated by letting the applicant speak up for himself. in this excerpt, the narrator is providing a, both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries. b. only objective information about people, setting, and events. c. only subjective responses to the things he sees and experiences. d. a compromised interpretation of events due to his unstable condition.