Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller."
In a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character.
"Wouldn’t they have saved her if she hadn’t been good?” demanded the bigger of the small girls. It was exactly the question that the bachelor had wanted to ask.
"Well, yes,” admitted the aunt lamely, "but I don’t think they would have run quite so fast to her help if they had not liked her so much.”
Which theme does this passage best support?
Pride goes before a fall.
People should try to be good.
It is necessary to question authority.
Children should be seen and not heard.
People should try to be good.
Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller."
The frown on the bachelor's face was deepening to a scowl. He was a hard, unsympathetic man, the aunt decided in her mind. She was utterly unable to come to any satisfactory decision about the grass in the other field.
How does the characterization of the aunt contribute to the satire?
She tries hard to please others.
She observes the people around her.
She misinterprets the reactions of others.
She pays too much attention to others’ opinions.