In the sentence: "We would like to work in the soup kitchen <u>more frequently</u> next year", the degree of comparison of the underlined adverb is B. Comparative.
In English grammar, an adjective or adverb can be in a particular form that implicates a comparative relation. This relation can be of more or less, or greater or lesser.
Comparatives are characterized by the suffix -er ("This house is bigger than the other one") or distinguished by the word more or less ("This job is more difficult than the other one").
B.
Patronizing
The words
within the quotation marks you provided can best be described as patronizing
because of how Mr. Auld seems to know what is best for someone other than
himself the way a parent would; however, in this instance it takes the tone of disrespect
as it is speaking of one who is grown as one would of a child who wouldn’t know
what is best for himself or herself.