SSAT Middle Level Reading Question of the Day

Daily challenge for SSAT Middle Level Reading. Test yourself and track progress.

Adapted from Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free, though secret, in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him.

The author’s tone in this passage could best be described as                     .

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