For Questions 16 through 20, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
Consider the continuing pessimism of the political Candidate, whose proposals are increasingly ______.

A．Southern Gothic writers enjoy employing the character stereotypes of Southern plantation life.
B．American literature sometimes diverges sharply from its European antecedents.
C．Southern society is organized on clear moral guidelines of right and wron

A. reverential
B. deferential
C. contemptuous
D. redemptive
E. disdainful
F. trusting