English 11: Working with -GENS- Words. This just doesn’t make sense to me. Hope someone can help. TIA!

List of words to use:
-Degeneration
-Generation
-Eugenics,
-Generic
-Gendarme
-Gentleman
-Gender
-Genuine
-Genealogy
-Indigenous
-Ingenious
-Progeny
-Regeneration

Araby every morning i lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. the blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that i could not be seen. when she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. i ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. i kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, i quickened my pace and passed her. this happened morning after morning. i had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. what is the general tone of the passage? a. courageous b. comical c. passionate d. fearful