Mood and Tone

Which word indicates a happy tone in the following sentence?:

Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiance and their wedding plans.

• vicinity

• wedding

• bouncing

Identify the mood of the following sentence:

She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

• fanciful

• fearful

• melancholy

What is the mood of the following sentence?:

He furtively glanced behind him, for hear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.

• sentimental

• nervous

• frustrating

What is the tone of the following passage?:

“They looked at Martian hills that time had worn with a crushing pressure of years. They saw old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children's delicate bones among the blowing lakes of grass.”

• Hopeless

• Joyful

• Confident

What is the tone of the following sentence?:

Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.

• angry

• witty

• suspicious