It is a dangerous thing
to forget the climate of your birthplace,
to choke out the voices of dead relatives
when in dreams they call you
by your secret name.
which best describes the tone of the passage?
a. confused
b. serious
c. mournful
d. angry

C. Mournful.

Explanation: The tone of a story or a sentence is the author's attitude towards the audience, the subject, or even the characters of the story. There are many kinds of tones: positive, negative, happy, sad, angry, serious, etc. In the given passage we can see an example of a mournful tone, because we can see that the speaker is expressing sadness, grief and also he seems to be missing his birthplace and family.

i think that the quotes in paragraph 11 contribute to the development of ideas because it provides a good reasoning of the central idea of the text.