Answer:
The correct answer is <u>A</u>: He has to whitewash a fence and does not want to.
Explanation:
One morning, Aunt Polly asks Tom to whitewash a fence. Tom does not want to do it, and he tries to convince Jim to do it instead of him when Aunt Polly arrives and says Tom has to do it by himself. However, Tom manages to convince another boy, Ben Rogers, to do it instead of him. Ben accepts and gives Tom an apple in exchange because Tom convinced him that whitewashing a fence is a task only for privileged boys.
By the end of the day, the fence is whitewashed and Tom gets a lot of different things from each boy who tried to whitewash a fence.
You could use the adjective, gaudy, to describe a noun. The noun, quail, could be used as the sentence subject (either direct or indirect). For example:
"The gaudy pheasant made the dull quail ashamed of its plain feathers."
The answer would be (A) , a fable is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
