The answer is D) P<span>erseverance</span>
Uh do you have an image of the questions???
I think he says I want food and a wife sorry if im rong its been a while scince i've read that book.
Considering that tone is the speaker´s attitude towards a certain situation and consequently it expresses a specific emotion (mood and meaning). In this case, we can infer that the person feels dissapointed, sad and perhaps a little bit upset. He or she would "say with expression" option C. test, hard. (In fact I would emphasize believe and test in the first sentence and hard in the second).