4. Which of the following sentences from “The Balek Scales” does not support the story's theme of oppression and inequality?
O "For five generations they had been breathing in the dust which rose from the crushed flax stalks, letting
themselves be killed off by slow degrees, a race of long-suffering, cheerful people who ate goat cheese,
potatoes, and now and then a rabbit..."
O "During the day they would carry the flax stalks to the antiquated machines, with no protection from the
dust and at the mercy from the heat which came pouring out of the drying kilns."
O "Each cottage contained only one bed, standing against the wall like a closet and reserved for the
parents, while the children slept all round the room on benches."
"The children would crawl deep into the green darkness of the forest during the autumn when dampness
drove the mushrooms out of the soil, and almost every family had its own places where it gathered
mushrooms, places which were handed down in whispers from generation to generation."