Question

Read the excerpt from "How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale."

Though it is impossible to clarify fully why certain tales were deleted or placed in footnotes in later editions, we do know that "Death and the Goose Boy” was omitted because of its baroque literary features; "The Strange Feast,” because of its close resemblance to "Godfather Death”; "The Stepmother,” because of its fragmentary nature and cruelty; and "The Faithful Animals,” because it came from the Siddhi-Kür, a collection of Mongolian tales. From the first edition in 1812/1815 to the final one in 1857, the Grimms received numerous versions of tales already in their collection and new tales from strangers, friends, and colleagues, and they often decided to replace one tale with another version, to delete some of the tales, or to include variants in their footnotes.


Which key details best support the main idea in this paragraph? SELECT 3 OPTIONS

1 “…’Death and the Goose Boy’ was omitted because of its baroque literary features;”
2 “From the first edition in 1812/1815 to the final one in 1857…”
3 “…‘The Strange Feast’ [was omitted] because of its close resemblance to ‘Godfather Death;’”
4 “’The Stepmother’ [was omitted] because of its fragmentary nature and cruelty;”
5 “…’The Faithful Animals’ [was omitted] because it came from the Siddhi-Kür….”

Answer 1

1, 4, & 5

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Answer 2

Answer: 2 “From the first edition in 1812/1815 to the final one in 1857…”

The main purpose of the paragraph is to provide a description of how the Grimm Brothers gathered their stories and how they decided which ones to include in their books.

The last sentence is the one that fully explains this process and adds key details. It claims that the brothers received lots of contributions from different people, which they acknowledged in various ways. However, options 1, 3, 4 and 5 only provide a specific example of this pattern, instead of providing more details regarding the main idea of the paragraph. Any one of them could be removed without significantly affecting the rest of the text.