Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon." After a while, I knew that my belly was hungry. I could have
hunted for my meat, but I did not hunt. It is known that the
gods did not hunt as we do-they got their food from
enchanted boxes and jars. Sometimes these are still found
in the Dead Places-once, when I was a child and foolish, I
opened such a jar and tasted it and found the bod sweet.
But my father found out and punished me for it strictly, for,
often, that food is death. Now, though, I had long gone past
what was forbidden, and I entered the likeliest towers,
looking for the food of the gods.
I found it at last in the ruins of a great temple in the mid-city.
A mighty temple it must have been, for the roof was painted
like the sky at night with its stars-that much I could see,
though the colors were faint and dim. It went down into great
caves and tunnels-perhaps they kept their slaves there.
But when I started to climb down, I heard the squeaking of
How does the resolution in this passage help develop the
theme about rules?
When the narrator decides not to hunt, he recognizes that
the rules of the gods were better than the rules of his
people.
When the narrator enters the temple, he recognizes that
he no longer fears the gods, regardless of what the rules
of his people say.
When the narrator avoids the rats, he realizes that he is
going against the teachings of his people, but also doing
what is necessary for his survival.
When the narrator decides to ignore his father's words
and eat the food of the gods, he realizes that he is learning
to make his own choices.

D. When the narrator decides to ignore his father’s words and eat the food of the gods, he realizes that he is learning to make his own choices.

Explanation:

The narrator decides to eat the food of the gods because he is hungry, which an example of one making his own choices.

C is wrong because the passage says nothing about rats relating to the teachings of his people. He's avoiding them simply because "rats are unclean," he stated.

B is wrong because even though the passage implied that the narrator's peoples' teachings portray the gods as scary, it did not state that the narrator feared the gods.

A is wrong because the passage doesn't talk about any rules from any gods.

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Please click the heart.

answer:   a good wench, give it me.

iago

good girl, give it to me.

emilia

what will you do with ’t, that you have been so earnest

325to have me filch it?

emilia

and what are you going to do with it? why did you want it so much that you begged me to steal it?

iago

  why, what is that to you?

iago

what’s it to you?

emilia

if it be not for some purpose of import,

give ’t me again. poor lady, she’ll run mad

when she shall lack it.

emilia

if you don’t need it for some important reason, then give it back to me. poor lady, she’ll go crazy when she sees it’s missing.

iago

be not acknown on ’t,

330i have use for it. go, leave me.

iago

don’t admit to knowing anything about it. i need it. now go, leave me.

exit emilia

emilia exits.

i will in cassio’s lodging lose this napkin

and let him find it. trifles light as air

are to the jealous confirmations strong

as proofs of holy writ. this may do something.

335the moor already changes with my poison.

dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons

which at the first are scarce found to distaste,

but with a little act upon the blood

burn like the mines of sulfur.

i’ll leave this handkerchief at cassio’s house and let him find it.to a jealous man, a meaningless little thing like this looks like absolute proof. this handkerchief may be useful to me. the moor’s mind has already become infected with my poisonous suggestions. ideas can be like poisons. at first they hardly even taste bad, but once they get into your blood they start burning like hot lava.

enter othello

othello enters.

    i did say so.

340look, where he comes. not poppy nor mandragora

nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,

shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

which thou owedst yesterday.

here he comes. no drugs or sleeping pills will ever give you the restful sleep that you had last night.

othello

    ha! ha! false to me?

othello

argh! she’s cheating on me?

iago

why, how now, general? no more of that.

iago

oh, general, , no more of that!

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