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Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller."

In a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character.

"Wouldn’t they have saved her if she hadn’t been good?” demanded the bigger of the small girls. It was exactly the question that the bachelor had wanted to ask.

"Well, yes,” admitted the aunt lamely, "but I don’t think they would have run quite so fast to her help if they had not liked her so much.”

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Which theme does this passage best support?

A) Pride goes before a fall.
B) People should try to be good.
C) It is necessary to question authority.
D) Children should be seen and not heard.

A theme is one or more than one messages or lessons, not directly stated, that a text conveys about a topic that could apply to other literature or to life.

In the excerpt given, one of the themes may be "It is necessary to question authority", as it is about a storyteller, which it's the aunt and the figure of authority in the room too, who is telling a story to younger people, however, the audience finds the story uninteresting and, to a point, absurd, or lacking common sense. Seeing this, one of the girls in the audience decided to question what was being said. To which the aunt responded, perhaps answering the girl's doubt. In either way, the story teaches us that not because someone is in a position of authority, we must agree or accept what he or she says, in other words, it is necessary to question authority.