The theme of The King’s Magic Drum, is to always be honest. You can be rewarded by telling the truth instead of lying.
Answer:
"I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!"
Answer: C. Our hearts are united by nature itself.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne we can see the description of two souls like they have always been two, it says that if one of them wants to move, it only can be done if the other one moves too ("To move, but doth, if th’ other do"), so by that description we can say that the statement that best paraphrases the lines of the poem is that our hearts are united by nature itself.
