Not having the excerpt here, I can only help you to find the answer. Mood is the feeling you get when you read the passage. Foreboding is fearful or apprehensive. Welcoming is or can be joyful and accommodating or making someone feel comfortable in their surroundings. Sorrowful is sad or mournful. Optimistic is positive, hopeful, and confident about your future. As you read the passage, which of these are you feeling or closely matches your feelings.
What is the genre? that's what you first need to ask.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "B. He describes her posture as she "patrolled" the room with her "withering height." "Galarzo best capture the competence of his teacher, Miss Ryan, in the excerpt from Barrio Boy is that <span>He describes her posture as she "patrolled" the room with her "withering height."</span>