Question

What does the first sentence of this short story tell us about the setting?

A.the king was cruel
B.it is in olden times,in kingdom that is ruled by a barbaric king
C.it is during the dark ages

In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric.

Answer 1

Answer: B, it is in olden times, in a kingdom that is ruled by a barbaric king

Answer 2

B

Step-by-step explanation:

First of all the story did not take place yesterday. It is a story told about something that happened a long time ago. That's needed so we won't think "Well that sure couldn't happen today."

Second the sentence tells us that the king is 1/2 a gentleman scholar and half an unruly barbarian. We better be careful of this guy. He could welcome us with open arms into his kingdom or he could kill us by boiling us in oil or some equally horrible death. We don't know.

So your best answer is likely B. The dark ages is too specific. We don't have enough information to put it there.

He wasn't all cruel. He was 1/2 in 1/2.