Answer: A) Playful.
Explanation: the mood of a character in a story is the attitude of the character towards a situation of another character. In the given excerpt from "Mending Wall" the speaker has a playful mood towards his neighbour and the situation where he was asked to build a wall, and he doesn't understand what is the point. To express his point of view he asks questions and he has a playful attitude.
A gerund looks like a verb which ends in -ing, but it functions as a noun in a sentence. A predicate noun follows a linking verb, such as <em>to be, to seem, </em>etc. So, among all these examples, the only gerund phrase which is used as a predicate noun is found in the last sentence, and the gerund is leading, whereas the whole phrase is leading people to their seats.
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Answer:
B.
personal trait of an individual