Question

Read the following sentence from "The Balek Scales." (1 point)

Everything my grandfather took to the Baleks he entered on the back of a torn-off calendar page: every pound of mushrooms, every gram of thyme, and on the right-hand side, in his childish handwriting, he entered the amount he received for each item; he scrawled in every pfennig, from the age of seven to the age of twelve, and by the time he was 12 or year 1900 had arrived, and because the Baleks had been raised to the aristocracy by the Emperor, they gave every family in the village a quarter of a pound of real coffee, the Brazilian kind; there was also free beer and tobacco for the men, and at the chateau there was a great banquet; mini carriages stood in the avenue poplars landing on the entrance gates to the chateau.


In the sentence, the narrator recounts the grandfathers notetaking most likely to

A. Show the meticulous nature of the men in his village.
B. Demonstrate how intelligent his grandfather had been.
C. Provide a contrasting image of rich and poor in his society.
D. Illustrate the importance of accuracy when measuring income.

Answer 1

The third alternative is correct (C).

The narrator tells the story of the grandfather, a member of the base of the social pyramid who provided inputs to a rich aristocratic family. One can perceive the exploitation that existed in that period, forming a caste of the rich and a mass of the poor. This shows the social contrast.

Answer 2

In the sentence, the narrator recounts the grandfather's notetaking most likely to Provide a contrasting image of rich and poor in his society.

Step-by-step explanation:

This paragraph shows in the first lines we have a description of how the things were specifically measured and counted, this was necessary to make sure they will be enough and then in the second part we see words like free and banquet which show a great opulence totally opposite to the first part of the paragraph.