What can the reader infer from the fact that Nikolai Petrovitch Kirsanov stopped describing his property as made up of "two hundred souls" and started describing it as a "farm" of "nearly five thousand acres"? A)that Nikolai Petrovitch is a communist sympathizer B)that Nikolai Petrovitch is definitely a tsarist supporter of the monarchy C)that Nikolai Petrovitch is a cruel and uncompromising ruler of his peasants D)that Nikolai Petrovitch is progressive in his views of how to treat peasants
