Directions: Read the passage given below and choose the correct alternative…
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Directions: Read the passage given below and choose the correct alternative for each of the following.
There was a dog and he was very hungry. He searched for food everywhere and at last he found a bone. He started going home after picking the bone with his mouth. There was a bridge on the way to his home. When he started crossing it, he saw his reflection in water. The dog thought that there was another dog with a bone in water. He wanted to get that other bone too. So the dog started barking at his own reflection. His bone fell in water as soon as he opened his mouth. The greedy dog lost his bone.
The moral of the story is
Answer: C. Don’t be greedy — CONCEPTA story’s moral is the general lesson revealed by the main character’s choice and the consequence that follows. The central lesson should explain the…
- A.
Don’t open your mouth
- B.
Don’t bark at another dog
- C.
Don’t be greedy
- D.
More than one of the above
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: C
CONCEPT
A story’s moral is the general lesson revealed by the main character’s choice and the consequence that follows.
The central lesson should explain the whole cause-and-effect chain, not merely an immediate physical action in the plot.
APPLICATION
The dog already possesses a bone, so its basic need has been met.
It mistakes its reflection for another dog and desires the imagined second bone.
Acting on that desire, it barks, drops the bone it already has, and loses it.
CROSS-CHECK / CONTRAST
“Don’t open your mouth” describes the immediate mechanism of the loss, not the broader motive behind the action.
“Don’t bark at another dog” does not capture the event accurately because the perceived animal is the dog’s own reflection.
“More than one of the above” would require two listed statements to express equally central lessons, but the action-based statements describe surface events.
“None of the above” does not apply because the lesson about greed is explicitly supported by the dog’s desire for an additional bone and the resulting loss.
Therefore, the moral is “Don’t be greedy.”