Question

Tarik tells the group that Nadia is wise because... She entertains the women while they weave cloth. She entertains the women while they weave cloth. She remembers how to play Hamed's games. She remembers how to play Hamed's games. She takes the blame for the shepherd boy's actions. She takes the blame for the shepherd boy's actions. She helps her father remember Hamed. She helps her father remember Hamed.

Answer 1

She helps her father remember Hamed.

Step-by-step explanation:

The short story "Nadia the Willful" by Sue Alexander tells the story of how a strong-headed girl helped her family, her people, and especially her father deal with the loss of their beloved brother/son. Nadia, through her refusal to conform to her father's decree of abstaining from mentioning the name of her brother, helped everyone heal and also remember the dead boy through their memories.

Tarik, the sheik, and father of Nadia and Hamed had ordered everyone to never mention Hamed's name. But Nadia refused to obey her father's "decree" and kept talking about him as a way to remember him and his face. Through her, Tarik was also able to overcome his grief and heal, relying on the memories and remember his son. At the end of the story, he declared his daughter "wise", declaring "let my daughter Nadia be known not as willful but as wise. And let her name be praised in every tent, for she has given me back my beloved son."

Thus, the correct answer is the last/ fourth option.