Analyzing Character, Theme, and Plot in Short Stories
Question 3 • Common Core ELA 10 A - Aberdeen
Which quotation from "The Story of the Fisherman” in The Arabian Nights Entertainments supports the theme that cleverness trumps wrath?
Answer
A
“Vexed with having such a bad haul, when he had mended his nets, which the carcase of the ass had broken in several places, he threw them a second time.”
B
“‘O Fortune,’ he cried, ‘do not trifle thus with me, a poor fisherman, who can hardly support his family!’”
C
“At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would kill him at once.”
D
“That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in? I cannot believe it unless I see you do the thing.”