Question

the author, an ojibway novelist, spent most of his childhood in foster homes in northwestern ontario, canada. in this passage, the author discusses being reunited with his birth family.
from the country between us
1
there are times when something as simple as the rain that freckles slate grey water can take me back to it—that feeling i remember from my boyhood when the ragged line of trees against the sky filled me with a loneliness that had nothing to do with loss. the land sometimes carries an emptiness you feel in you like the breeze.
2
it’s not a sad feeling. rather it’s a song i learned by rote in the tramp of my young feet through the rough and tangle of the bush that shaped me. i come to the land the same way still, expectant, awake to the promise of territories beyond the horizon, undiscovered and wild. all those years in cities never took away that feeling of tremendous awe.
3
when i rejoined my native family after twenty years, it was the land that framed our reconnection. it was a balm for the awkwardness of strangers who bore the same blood and history. . . .
4
it wasn’t easy coming back. i had little of the ojibway left on me and they had no experience with the urban world i knew. but all of us felt a kinship with the territory we called our home, and it was there, among the muskeg, rock and spruce of the northern land, that my family found a way to scrabble past our differences.
5
we went camping the second summer i was home. we drove to silver lake on the gravel road that leads to grassy narrows and found a place above a wide sweep of beach.
6
there were five of us: my uncle archie, my mother, my stepfather, my
this question has two parts. answer part a, and then answer part b.
part a
which phrase best describes the tone of paragraph 2?

1. victorious pride
2. casual friendliness
3. reflective appreciation
4. lighthearted amusement

part b
select two phrases from paragraph 2 that best show how the correct tone from part a is developed.

1. \the tramp of my young feet\
2. \the rough and tangle of the bush\
3. \i come to the land the same way still\
4. \awake to the promise of territories beyond the horizon\
5. \that feeling of tremendous awe\

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Explanation:

For Part A: Paragraph 2 reflects on the author's connection to the land, describing a learned, formative bond and a sense of awe, which matches reflective appreciation rather than pride, casualness, or amusement.
For Part B: Phrase 3 shows the author's ongoing, consistent connection to the land (reflective), and phrase 5 directly states the awe-inspired appreciation that defines the tone.

Answer:

Part A:

1. reflective appreciation

Part B:

1. "I come to the land the same way still"
2. "that feeling of tremendous awe"