Answer:
a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.
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The speaker believes that she and her peers ought to be in charge of assigning sentences in cases like Hester's.
Causing to feel pity, because the person comforted the cat due to feeling bad for the cat.
I would go with D for the first one and B for the second one.