Are their options?
Tripped,, maybe?
Ann means that if someone believes the "kids' movie" is distracting (since diverting means "changing attention," then the person is becoming childish (since "reverting" means "change back to")
I would say that the example of satire among these options is d. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
Twain is criticizing and mocking the English for settling everything in such a trivial manner as betting.
Answer:
1- By illustrating the ways in which readers have related to the novel's characters and themes.
