The answer is 3, nervousness. It is quite easy to figure out if you have experienced those feelings yourself, and Lara could be seen as "shy" from a third-person perspective based on her quiet voice and inability to look the teacher in the eye.
<span>McCourt is using allusion</span>
The answer is B. During all "Exhalation" it is shown the importance of the scientific method and how much it affects in the truth.
<span>D. The speaker cannot believe that something terrible has happened when everyone is so happy.</span>