I’m going to trust your judgement over mine @willay , CR seems to be your strong suit, and now that I think about the analysis, that could be a wrong answer… The text wasn’t devoted to an analysis of his admiration, for sure.
About his speech, I was torn between those two but went with indirect speech on the basis of him indirectly saying what his mother(or grandmother, I forgot.) said one time. It could’ve easily been monologue with all the reflection he did afterwards though.
How about his grandmother calling him stupid? Hahaha, would that be affectionately teasing? It could have been blatant dismissive too.
I actually got the blank one right? The heck hahaha
Ooh, I think, at the last moment, I chose all three. There was some sense of metrics going on, when the author mentions the longevity / lifespans of the two subjects.