The mood is quite significant and crucial to a literary work as it creates a specific atmosphere that evokes specific emotions and feelings of the readers. The mood of the work is reflected through the setting, theme, diction, tone, and use of words that assist to create an emotional setting to surround the readers and engross them in it and evoke the desired response from them. The mood that the author creates in this excerpt is '<u>doubting</u>' which is clearly reflected through his recurring suspicious questions like "Would we return empty-handed? ", "Were we looking in the wrong place?" that enhances the uncertainty of the author. Thus, the correct answer is option B.
Mildred Meigs, in a poem about Lincoln, describes Lincoln's upbringing in terms of his "backwoods common sense". She mentions how he learned all he did in the woods, that his life was very simple and how he grew into such an important and courageous man.</span>
