Question

Nights and Dragons—

From the memoir of author Abigail Prynne
I could have given up, but I thought about my grandmother. She always told me that "people who believe that science is the answer to everything are missing out on everything else." With her words in mind, I searched some more. There were many facts that hinted that dragons may not be fictional. I noticed that cultures across the world all described dragons in similar ways. This was odd because they had no way to communicate with each other. I found dragons mentioned in more than just stories. They appeared in old legal papers, in the travel logs of Marco Polo, and in the Bible. I saw that the Chinese calendar uses a different animal each year. Dragons are included along with eleven real animals. I began to believe it was a real possibility that all of these people were talking about a creature that actually existed.

List three details from the text that support the main idea. (5 points)

Answer 1

The first detail is "She always told me that "people who believe that science is the answer to everything are missing out on everything else." since science is not the answer to everything. The second one is "I noticed that cultures across the world all described dragons in similar ways. This was odd because they had no way to communicate with each other." showing that if they couldn't communicate with each other, then they might have seen/had evidence that dragons existed once if they described them in similar ways. The final one is "I saw that the Chinese calendar uses a different animal each year. Dragons are included along with eleven real animals." showing that if all the other animals were real, then it was a possibility that dragons were real once too.

Answer 2

Don't give up ("I could have given up")

Don't believe everything you here ("'people who believe that science is the answer to everything are missing out on everything else"')

All cultures are different ("I noticed that cultures across the world all described dragons in similar ways")

Even animals are different too ("Dragons are included along with eleven real animals")

Cultures are all over the place ("I began to believe it was a real possibility that all of these people were talking about a creature that actually existed")

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