In this excerpt from H. H. Munro’s “The Open Window,” which line is an example of direct characterization?

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

the answer is c. he is an efficient leader who prompts his crew to work quickly .

explanation:

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.