One way Angie tries to encourage Pete is by - A) promising him that he will find great fame on the Internet
B) explaining to him that she was too busy taping the football game to see his performance
C) telling him that he will be on a video with others who also sang the national anthem at
football games
D) reminding him that singing the national anthem is something most people are not brave
enough to do

evil118a

08/22/2018

English

High School

+5 pts

Answered

Based on the details in the excerpt, what is its primary purpose?

a. to explain to children that the moon causes the tides

b. to warn fishers to avoid pulling too hard on their lines

c. to entertain children with a joke about a rat and a fisherman

d. to inform fishers about when it is easiest to sail on the Perak River

Read the excerpt from "The Crab That Played with the Sea.”

And the Rat of the Moon stopped biting the line; and the Fisherman let his line down till it touched the Sea, and he pulled the whole deep Sea along, past the Island of Bintang, past Singapore, past Malacca, past Selangor, till the canoe whirled into the mouth of the Perak River again. ‘Kun?’ said the Fisherman of the Moon.‘Payah kun’ said the Eldest Magician. ‘See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night forever, so that the Malazy fishermen may be saved paddling. But be careful not to do it too hard, or I shall make a magic on you as I did to Pau Amma.’Then they all went up the Perak River and went to bed, Best Beloved.

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