Question 1: D) And the clouds float away in a red-splashed light.
These words create a visual representation of ideas in our minds, a "red-splashed light" is key in the sentence as colors can only be perceived by our sight.
Question 2: A) Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs.
When we have sensations of "burning" and "tickling", we perceive them through our tactile sense.
Question 3: D) Time, above me, within me, crashed its gongs
Gongs are rounded pieces of metals hung in a frame that, when it is hit, it produces a sound. Therefore, the option chosen appeals to the sense of hearing.
Question 4: A) Sight.
When we read "sparkling eyes", we can imagine eyes that shine brightly with flashes of light, and light can only be perceived through sight. And "teeth like pearls" also make reference to something shiny.
Question 5: C) Gloomy.
The narration is focused on the hopelessness feelings of the person, he or she finds the midnight "dreary", and he or she described themselves as "weak and weary". The narrator is pensive and seems unhappy, the mood is gloomy.
Question 6: D) All things rejoice in youth and love,/The fullness of their first delight!
Contemplation involves serious and deep thoughts. From the given options, this is the sentence that would involve such kind of thinking, as "youth", "love", "fullness" and "delight" are all ambiguous concepts, that may require some deep thinking to reach to the conclusions of what they really are, and mean to oneself.
Question 7: A) Soothing
The narrator uses positive words such as "shine", "silent delight" "smiles on the night", all of which evokes a soothing or calm feeling, free from worries, and anxiety. Furthermore, these words are not intended to console someone else from bad things, the narrator is just affirming their thoughts. And although the excerpt evokes positiveness and happiness, it doesn't depict something full of pleasure, or extremely enjoyable but it does it in a more calm way.
Question 8: A) Optimistic
It is optimistic because the narrator is hopeful, he or she lays emphasis on the good that is to come: the sense of sorrow will go away.