Question

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three
months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling
like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the
ordinary Englishman made me sick. I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as
flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. "Richard Hannay," I kept telling myself, "you have got into the
wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out."

Which of the following best describes the tone created by the author's use of language in the passage?

(1 point)

O joyful and lighthearted

O determined and scornful

anxious and fearful

O formal and sorrowful
l and so

Answer 1

determined and scornful

The narrator’s language (“pretty well disgusted,” “fed up,” “made me sick,” amusements “flat as soda‑water…in the sun”) conveys contempt for his situation and a resolved intent to change (“you have got into the wrong ditch…you had better climb out”).