You did not provide the excerpt but I wound it and the correct answers are the following two sentences:
1.<span>For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks.
Here we see that they do possess a kind of intelligence, maybe at first strange and unclear but it is there, no matter how strange it might seem.
2.</span><span>I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
Here the Time Traveler has found his Time Machine and he finds that the Morlocks had tried to grasp its function and its purpose. They have taken it apart and then cleaned and oiled it, which suggests they know somethings about how the machine work.
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The question is asking which answer choice DOES NOT make sense about a theme of a story.
You could use choice A, C, and D as definitions for theme. So your answer that does not fit is B.
Answer = B. The theme of a short story is the plot- the actions that lead up to the story's resolution.
Good Luck! :)
The sentence could effectively be places in a summary of Chapter 4 of Wheels of Change because it expresses a key idea objectively is "<span>In the 1880s and 1890s, female bicycle racers faces a variety of opponents, including makes, horses, and an occasional dog."</span>
