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Select ALL correct answers. "The Tiger's Whisker" is an example of a folktale. A folktale: Question 1 options: Is a story that is meant to teach its audience an important lesson Provides lessons that focus on values that generally do not change over time such as the value of friendship. Is a story that is often passed along by word of mouth from one generation to another. Is a story that always loses its value and meaning overtime because every generation is different. Save

Question 2 (2 points) Question 2 Unsaved Which of the following describes Yun Ok's situation? Question 2 options: Her husband no longer loves her. She wants to become better friends with the hermit. Her husband no longer loves her. Her husband has become very distant since he returned home from war. Save
Question 3 (2 points) Question 3 Unsaved How does the hermit react to Yun Ok's request for a potion to solve her problem? Question 3 options: He laughs at Yun Ok's idea because he thinks she is foolish to believe that solving the problem with her husband could be so simple. He thinks she is a very smart lady to come to him asking for a potion. He thinks that she is a very selfish woman to ask him for a potion when there are many others who are in need. He is impressed with her bravery because everyone else is too afraid to come visit him. Save
Question 4 (2 points) Question 4 Unsaved Why is Yun Ok willing to risk her life and approach the tiger? Question 4 options: She doesn't really understand how strong and dangerous the tiger could be. She knows that the tiger owes her a favor and will be ready to repay her. She decides that reconnecting with her husband is worth the risk. She has the potion from the hermit in her pocket. Save
Question 5 (2 points) Question 5 Unsaved What does Yun Ok learn from her experience with the tiger? Question 5 options: She learns that the hermit was wrong, and she should have used a potion. She learns that tigers are not really strong and dangerous. She learns that through patience, she can win her husband's trust and heart like she earned the trust of the tiger. She learns that hermits are not wise at all. Save Question 6 (2 points) Question 6 Unsaved The author doesn't come right out and describe all of Yun Ok's character traits; however, we can infer that:
  Question 6 options: She is patient and demonstrates perseverance by spending six long months, slowly getting the tiger to trust her before she plucks out his whisker. She is a sneaky and brave risk-taker because she is able to creep into the tiger's cave and pluck the whisker without him knowing. She is incredibly strong because she is able to fight off the tiger when he finds her trying to take one of his whiskers. She is smart and is able to trick the tiger into giving her one of his whiskers. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Yes, "The Tiger's Whisker" is a folktale that teaches important lessons, Yun Ok's situation is that her husband has become distant, the hermit is impressed with Yun Ok's bravery, Yun Ok is willing to risk her life to reconnect with her husband, Yun Ok learns the importance of patience, and she demonstrates perseverance throughout the story.

Step-by-step explanation:

The story "The Tiger's Whisker" is an example of a folktale. A folktale is a story that is meant to teach its audience an important lesson and is often passed along by word of mouth from one generation to another. It provides lessons that focus on values that generally do not change over time, such as the value of friendship. It is not true that a folktale always loses its value and meaning over time because every generation is different.

In "The Tiger's Whisker," Yun Ok's situation is that her husband has become very distant since he returned home from war.

When Yun Ok asks the hermit for a potion to solve her problem, he is impressed with her bravery because everyone else is too afraid to come visit him.

Yun Ok is willing to risk her life and approach the tiger because she decides that reconnecting with her husband is worth the risk.

From her experience with the tiger, Yun Ok learns that through patience, she can win her husband's trust and heart, just as she earned the trust of the tiger.

We can infer from the story that Yun Ok is patient and demonstrates perseverance by spending six long months slowly gaining the trust of the tiger before plucking out his whisker.

Answer 2

The folktale "The Tiger´s Whisker" originates from Korea, and it is used mostly as a child´s tale. It narrates the story of Yun Ok, whose husband has changed drastically from a loving, and gentle man, to an irrascible one, thanks to the wars. In desperation, Yun Ok, goes to a hermit and asks for a potion. The man tells her that in order to do so, she must bring a whisker from a live tiger. Yun Ok does as she is told, and patiently gains the trust of a tiger, and gets the needed whisker. In the end, she finds out that the lesson the hermit wanted her to learn was that to regain her husband, she needed to apply the same technique she used on the tiger, and not a potion. Given this background, the answers would be thus:

1. A folktale is defined precisely as: A story that is often passed along by word of mouth from one generation to another. This is the correct answer.

2. In this question, the answer is: Her husband has become very distant since he returned from war. This is what is narrated in the story as the reason for Yun Ok´s husband´s estrangement.

3. The correct answer here is: He laughs at Yun Ok´s idea because he thinks she is foolish to believe that solving the problem with her husband could be so simple. Though not directly stated, the hermit does laugh in a way when he says to Yun Ok that healing her husband with a potion is not like taking care of an ear infection. And he makes her feel somewhat foolish for her request. But she insists and he gives in.

4. The answer to this question is: She decides that reconnecting with her husband is worth the risk. This is stated in the story when Yun, although afraid, still continues persistently to go after the tiger, always keeping in mind that all is for the benefit of herself and her husband.

5. The answer here is: She learns that through patience, she can win her husband´s trust and heart like she earned the trust of the tiger. This is the lesson she learns when the hermit burns the whisker and makes her reflect on how she was able to get it from a wild tiger, saying that a man cannot be fiercer, or more difficult, than a tiger.

6. The answer here is: She is patient and demonstrates perseverance by spending six long months, slowly getting the tiger to trust her before she plucks out his whisker. This is exactly what she does in the story. She spends every day of those six months, carefully gaining the tiger´s trust, until he allows her near, and then allows her to take his whisker.