Read this excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath:The driver munched the branded pie and threw the crust away. "Times are changed, don't you know? Thinking about stuff like that don't feed the kids. Get your three dollars a day, feed your kids. You got no call to worry about anybody's kids but your own. You get a reputation for talking like that, and you'll never get three dollars a day."Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt?A.SympatheticB.EnthusiasticC.Disgusted

Read the following passage from The Grapes of Wrath:The little farmers watched debt creep up on them like the tide. They sprayed the trees and sold no crop, they pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop.Which statement best describes the tone of this passage?A.The author feels frustrated for the farmers.

Read this excerpt from Margaret Frink's Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-seekers:Here we again heard alarming and discouraging accounts of deeds of violence and bloodshed that had recently been committed on the plains, along the route that we were very soon to travel over.Which statement best describes the effect of word choice on the tone of the excerpt?A.Words like "deeds" and "committed" give the excerpt a threatening tone.B.Words like "alarming" and "violence" give the excerpt a sinister tone.C.Words like "again" and "soon" give the excerpt an expectant tone.D.Works like "discouraging" and "bloodshed" give the excerpt a depressed tone.

Read this excerpt from Margaret Frink's Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-seekers:Here we again heard alarming and discouraging accounts of deeds of violence and bloodshed that had recently been committed on the plains, along the route that we were very soon to travel over.Which statement best describes the effect of word choice on the tone of the excerpt?A.Words like "violence" and "bloodshed" give the excerpt a threatening tone.B.Words like "committed" and "deeds" give the excerpt a sinister tone.C.Words like "again" and "along" give the excerpt an anticipatory tone.D.Words like "accounts" and "travel" give the excerpt an exciting tone.

Read this excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath:The movement changed them; the highways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger and the hunger itself, changed them. The children without dinner changed them, the endless moving changed them.Which best describes the tone of this excerpt?A.SympatheticB.HopefulC.UncaringD.Syntactical

Read this excerpt from a speech:Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.What tone does the speaker create in this sentence?A.PersonalB.ExcitedC.AngryD.Sarcastic