What form is the author using in the following passage? "Should I have said, ‘Jim, what’s going on?’ or just waited for him to raise the subject?" wondered Mr. Ruiz.

A) Monologue, because one person is thinking silently.

B) Dialogue, because a second person is spoken to.

C) First person, as indicated by use of the word "I."

D) Quadratic, because Mr. Ruiz, Jim, author, and reader are involved.