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Originally Posted by Goldust
If the audience were disparaging, then they would not be bemused by it, but they would scorn it or something.
For SCs, don't just look at what the words mean but take into account the sentence as a whole. Something intangible lies in there. For instance, the use of the phrase "self-serving" almost certainly means that the author is against what the person in question did. In other words, he would support the audience.
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None of the answers make that much sense to me.
I initially thought A like everyone else and would have chosen A on a test as I go on first instinct. But, I started to read into the question and become confused.
I could see how it's A, but I also could see how it's B: a disparaging (pejorative) audience would also be baffled (bemused) by someone writing his own self-serving obituary. So, it could have received a "bemused reception". But, then again, I'm stretching things. It's A.
But, "self-serving" is the key word, which makes the answer A (self-serving > caustic reponse)