Read the following excerpt and use it to answer questions 8-11. Excerpt from "The Black Sheep" by Italo Calvino There was a country where they were all thieves. At night everybody would leave home with skeleton keys and shaded lanterns and go and burgle a neighbor’s house. They’d get back at dawn, loaded, to find their own house had been robbed. So everybody lived happily together, nobody lost out, since each stole from the other, and that other from another again, and so on and on until you got to a last person who stole from the first. Trade in the country inevitably involved cheating on the parts both of buyer and seller. The government was a criminal organization that stole from its subjects, and the subjects for their part were only interested in defrauding the government. Thus life went on smoothly, nobody was rich and nobody was poor. One day, how we don’t know, it so happened that an honest man came to live in the place. At night, instead of going out with his sack and his lantern, he stayed home to smoke and read novels. The thieves came, saw the light on and didn’t go in. This went on for a while: then they were obliged to explain to him that even if he wanted to live without doing anything, it was no reason to stop others from doing things. Every night he spent at home meant a family would have nothing to eat the following day. The honest man could hardly object to such reasoning. He took to going out in the evening and coming back the following morning like they did, but he didn’t steal. He was honest, there was nothing you could do about it. He went as far as the bridge and watched the water flow by beneath. When he got home he found he had been robbed. 11. Which piece of evidence best supports the honest man's reason for leaving his house at night?(3 points) Responses "At night, instead of going out with his sack and his lantern, he stayed home to smoke and read novels." "At night, instead of going out with his sack and his lantern, he stayed home to smoke and read novels." "The honest man could hardly object to such reasoning." "The honest man could hardly object to such reasoning." "He took to going out in the evening and coming back the following morning like they did" "He took to going out in the evening and coming back the following morning like they did" "Every night he spent at home meant a family would have nothing to eat the following day."
The piece of evidence that best supports the honest man's reason for leaving his house at night is: "Every night he spent at home meant a family would have nothing to eat the following day."
