Because he was as a child, Rob was a rather self-centered teenager. After hearing the raucous, cheering response to Adam’s speech, Mr. James feared that his new student body president might be an amateur.

Rob was to be immature but Mr. James is unsure to have faith withi his work.

Explanation:

Coddled because the adjective refers to the parenting method and how it resulted in his posterior self-centered personal feature.

Bourgeois cannot be the correct one because it is more related with the social position that someone has, which mustn´t have a direct relationship with his self-centered behavior.

Despotic is not correct because it doesn´t respect the rule of action-reaction that the sentence needs to express.

Dubious is not the one because in a contextual view of the sentence it doesn’t make sense.

Demagogue because, thinking in the sentence context, the noun that here appears corresponds to the reaction that Adam´s speech had.

Bourgeois is not the one because it doesn´t make sense since it is not related to the statement of the sentence.

For more information about Adam, refer to the link:-

d) the narrator even suggested that the white whale, moby d, was ubiquitous and present in every ocean at every moment.