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Question 6 • English Language Arts 10

Which quotation from "The Story of the Fisherman” in The Arabian Nights Entertainments supports the theme that cleverness trumps wrath?

Answer

“At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would kill him at once.”

“That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in? I cannot believe it unless I see you do the thing.”

“‘O Fortune,’ he cried, ‘do not trifle thus with me, a poor fisherman, who can hardly support his family!’”

“Vexed with having such a bad haul, when he had mended his nets, which the carcase of the ass had broken in several places, he threw them a second time.”

Explanation

The fisherman cleverly challenges the spirit to prove that its whole body could fit inside the small vase. The spirit’s pride makes it enter the vase, giving the fisherman a chance to trap it and protect himself. This shows cleverness overcoming the spirit’s wrath; choice B contains the fisherman’s challenge.

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