This question is based on Literary Principles.
''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''
John Updike, Beech: A Book
The tone of the passage above is

A. authoritative
B. mocking
C. appreciative
D. scathing  

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Correct Answer: D