There is no "following sentence" so I don't think you're ever gonna get an answer...
The answer would be the third option, elusive. I hope this helped! :)
It was the 1930s when the period of To Kill a Mockingbird set.
I’m pretty sure Jem and dill want to play this new game called “boo radley” in which they try to make boo radley come out of his house. They don’t let her because they think she’ll get scared to quickly
