Question

30 POINTS (PLEASE ANSWER CORRECTLY):

Read the excerpt from "The Goatherd and the Wild Goats."

A goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night.

The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.

He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.

When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains.

The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.

One of them, turning about, said to him: "That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”


QUESTION:

Which details from the text show that the author’s primary purpose is to educate children about how to treat others?

ANSWER CHOICES: (YOU CAN PICK MULTIPLE ANSWERS)

a. A goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night.

b. When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains.

c. He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.

d. The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.

e The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.

f. "That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”

Answer 1

E and F.

Step-by-step explanation:

The author’s primary purpose to educate children is shown in the last options as you fully underestand the tale.

"That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”

It's simmilar to a fable in which you get a moral answer, a teaching of some sort. In this case, it would roughly be: "Treat everyone the same way" or the other way around: "Don't trust those who treat you better by treating anyone else wrong".

I'd choose option E because it's the moment when you start entering a cathartical moment, very useful when teaching things to children.