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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage IV

The buses are full of conversation not only on public topics but also on embarrassingly private ones and not only between acquaintances but also between people who have never met before. Among the former the jokes are loud and hearty and they are also permissible between total strangers. One day a fellow passenger looked at my large sola 'topee' and remarked that it was heavier than  my whole body and when I replied that it was no bigger than his turban he said that he hoped I was not offended by his joke.

The writer's reply made his fellow passenger

A) feel offended                 

B) indignant

C) perplexed                      

D) feel embarrassed