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?
Answer
A
Children should be seen and not heard.
B
Pride goes before a fall.
C
People should try to be good.
D
It is necessary to question authority.
Explanation
The little girl questions the aunt’s claim that the child was rescued because she was good, asking whether rescuers would have saved her anyway. The bachelor also wanted to ask this question, suggesting that the story’s lesson should not simply be accepted without thought. This best supports the theme that it is necessary to question authority.
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