I am pretty sure that it is C.
Skills? I wouldn't say skills, but you think about what you red and write, you use what you know from your brain to basically understand words in a book or even when you write them down, etc. If this doesn't help, look up all the skills of reading and writing on google =)
The event that described in chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter occurs after the women of the crowd are introduced was that "The women discuss Hester's sentence." <span>Onlookers reacted to Hester's embroidered letter.</span>
It was because of the tension between american colonies and brittish colonies
They are not educated, they come from a poor family, and they are more than likely abused.