Question

“tut, tut, child!” said the duchess. “everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” and she squeezed herself up closer to alice’s side as she spoke.
7 alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the duchess was very ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon alice’s shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. however, she did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
8 “the game’s going on rather better now,” she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little.
9 “tis so,” said the duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!”’
10 “somebody said,” alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!”
2 alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
based on the context of the passage, the word temper in paragraph two means
a temperature.
b a state of emotions.
c a fancy style of dress.
d likely to get mad easily.

Explanation:

The context shows Alice is glad the Duchess is in a "pleasant temper" compared to being "savage" (angry) before. "Temper" here relates to emotional state, not temperature (A), dress style (C), or just being easily mad (D is too narrow as it's "pleasant" temper now).

Answer:

B. a state of emotions.