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").
The underlined participial phrase which is "continuing to stir the soup", is placed incorrectly. The correct sentence should be, "The phone rang and my mother, continuing to stir the soup, answered it". Why is it misplaced? Putting the participial phrase at the beginning of the sentence makes it a dangling modifier because it does not clearly state the specific word it modifies. In the corrected sentence, it is clear now who is being described with the phrase "continuing to stir the soup", which is the "mother".
In the beginning of the book she talks about jems arm being broken which lead to in to the finches ancestry and how they ended up in maycomb.