Question

4. Based on word choice in the following lines, identify the narrator’s tone:

“he’d confessed to her that he still felt guilty at times for changing his name, more so now that his father was dead. And shed assured him that it was understandable, that anyone in his place would have done the same. But now its become a joke to her. Suddenly he regrets having her told moushumi; he wonders if shell proclaim the story of his father’s accident to the table as well”
A) Frustrated
B) Condescending
C) Sympathetic
D) Forgiving

Answer 1

The answer is definitely (C. Sympathetic

Answer 2

The primary tone of the narrator in the selection is being "sympathetic", which is letter C. among the choices. The excerpt flows from the time he felt guilty for his actions, that's why he was being comforted to the point where he already felt that everything is a joke and he still regrets confessing to moushumi.