Read the passage from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. it is unlikely that you will be hanged for taking a wild animal such as a rabbit; but, even so, you will get a fine amounting to three times the value of the animal as well as three months in prison, and you will have to enter into a bond to guarantee your good behavior in the future; a second offense will be treated more harshly. which statement best describes how the author’s use of second-person point of view affects readers?
a. the readers are more objective because they feel distanced from the text.
b. the readers feel shamed into being more careful because they feel lectured.
c. the readers pay attention to the dangers because they are directly engaged.
d. the readers ignore the instructions because they are being talked down to.

Correct answer choice is :

This common history searches daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside the homes and minds of common citizens as well as intellectuals of the period, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake. Designed as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, Mortimer associates in charming detail everything from the sounds and smells of sixteenth-century England to the complicated and conflicting Elizabethan views toward violence, class, sex, and religion.

- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."

i think the answer is b