Richie had felt a mad, exhilarating kind of energy growing in the room. . . . He thought he recognized the feeling from his chil
dhood, when he felt it every day and had come to take it merely as a matter of course. He supposed that, if he had ever thought about that deep-running aquifer of energy as a kid (he could not recall that he ever had), he would have simply dismissed it as a fact of life, something that would always be there, like the color of his eyes . . . . Well, that hadn't turned out to be true. The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself—that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller . . . purpose, maybe, or goals . . . .
Which word describes the tone in this excerpt best?
The answer is B, nostalgic. The excerpt is about childhood memories or experiences, and nostalgia means a sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with a happy association
The first passage presents factual information about the Mississippi River, while the second passage simply uses the Mississippi River for plot points and setting.
