"By the Waters of Babylon," Part 2: Analyzing Theme — Unit test
Question 14 • ELA 10B - 2023
Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon.”I told and he listened. After that, I wished to tell all the people but he showed me otherwise. He said, "Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. It was not idly that our fathers forbade the Dead Places." He was right—it is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.