Question

14. As you read the following passage from the novel Black Beauty, think about how you would summarize it.

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Which paragraph provides the best theme-based summary of this passage?

Answer 1

Black Beauty, a handsome well-born, well-bred horse of the era before automobiles, narrates the story. He is initially owned by kind masters but is sold to successively crueler owners. Eventually he collapses from overwork and ill treatment, but in the end he is sold to another kind owner and recovers.