"donned" means to put on, so she put on her shoes, and the context clue Simone carefully dressed, therefore, donned or put on, is the only one that could fit, it the context.
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C) We went to hear the man himself speak.
Himself is an intensive pronoun. Intensive and reflexive pronouns end use the object form of the pronoun and end in -self. Intensive pronouns are found immediately after the antecedent. In this case, after "man" because "himself" is intensifying "man".
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