This question has the passage, but not the options with the specific quotations. I've found them online. They are the following:
Which quotation from the passage best supports the theme that looks can be deceiving?
A. "Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess."
B. "There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. . . . So he came home again and was sad."
C. "One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents."
D. "The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels."
Answer:
The quotation that best supports the theme that looks can be deceiving is:
D. "The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels."
Explanation:
The princess who showed up at the prince's door does not look like a princess at all. The stereotypical image of a princess is pristine, flawless. This one is soaking wet, her hair and clothes most likely unkempt and dirty. However, this look is quite deceiving. Even though she does not look like one, she is indeed a real princess. That is what the queen finds out after having her sleep on top of twenty mattresses and twenty eider-beds. Princesses are sensitive, and this one is so much so that she was able to feel the lump of a pea that was under all those mattresses and eider-beds.
Answer:
Events are decided in advance by powers beyond one's control.
Explanation:
A fatalist is one who believes in fate (happening of events outside a person's control, predetermined by supernatural forces). This definition is also evident from the sentence which he himself says in explanation of fatalist i.e "What will be, will be", meaning what is bound to happen, will happen.
Option A is incorrect because fatalist is derived from fate, not fatal (deadly)
Options B and D are incorrect because they are opposite of what "fate/fatalist" mean.
Answer:
I believe it is the first choice
