Answer: evaluating
Explanation: Evaluating means to systematically determine somethings merits and significance, including the seriousness or gravity of a problem.
Answer:
Buckley goes on to manipulate Bigger into a confession by showing him all the demonstrators who have gathered in hopes that Bigger will be executed. Buckley says, 'Those people would like to lynch you. ... ' Bigger is in over his head and doesn't know who to trust.
The verb is used intransitively because it has no subject.