Playful Yet Pedestrian English Tests

I am often confused like this guy up here when I take English reading comprehension tests and I get to a question like "What is the tone of the passage?" Why am I confused? Because the answers are all weird! Here's a sample:

Question: What is the tone of the passage?

Possible Answers:

(A) Resplendent but curtailed

(B) Ardent and artificial

(C) Persistently phlegmatic

(D) Unflinchingly sesquipedalian

(E) Immobile yet randy

How am I supposed to answer this kind of question?!?! What usually happens is I read the question then read the answers one by one, laughing after each (actually since it's a test situation it's more one of those breathe-out laughs) because they sound so funny and improbable, but then realize when I've done that on all five that there are no more options. So then I guess randomly.

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Just another random thing I wanted to bring up: I don't think that there are any words in English that have five vowels in a row (or at least not a common word), but in French there are at least one, and the one I know of has all 5 vowels! It's the conjugation for "they were playing"—ils jouaient.

For all of you non-French-speakers, you are probably wondering what the point of having all those vowels in a row is. Is the word pronounced "jo-uu-ai-ent"? Actually it's just "joo-ay." That's what French is like—if you want to seem legit just say the first few letters of a word in what sounds like a French accent then don't pronounce the second half of the word at all. Also throw in a few highfalutin "ahh"s.

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