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Read this excerpt from the passage.

"How much water is there in it?"

"Well, that is an odd question. I couldn't get bottom there with a church steeple."

Which tone does the sentence “I couldn’t get bottom there with a church steeple” give the narrator?

A. distant
B. humorous
C. angry
D. confident

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B. Humorous, what the entity is saying in that quote is similar to someone saying "I wouldn't get drunk even if my blood was made of alcohol". A HYPERBOLE in order to come off as humorous
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Answer:

D. confident

Step-by-step explanation:

just took the test and humorous was wrong.

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