Question

I honestly believed it was A. but my mom keeps arguing with me saying it would be B. Could anyone help me with this?
In The Three Kingdoms, what caused Zhang Jue to become the Great and Worthy Teacher?
A. A pestilence had spread throughout the land.
B. He wanted to compete with the Hermit.
C. His followers depended on him.
D. He needed to control the chieftains.

Answer 1

perhaps rereading the text can help answer the question.

Answer 2

I've tried. I've reread exactly where it tells that Zhang Jue became the Great and Worthy Teacher and nothing. I can't figure it out.

Answer 3

can i find this piece online?

Answer 4

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms is this it? could you tell me the chapter so that I can read it?

Answer 5

http://kongming.net/novel/sgyy/zhangjue.php

this might help you create an answer.

Answer 6

sorry it wasn't showing me that there was any new answers. one second.

Answer 7

I'm not so sure on (B), either. I think that (A) also sounds correct to me. Looking over that section of text, he started calling himself "Great and Worthy Teacher" when he began giving the afflicted "charms and potions" to heal them.

Saint Hermit gave him the book to become the "salvation of our age" and warned him against "seditious thoughts" before disappearing. From his perspective, it seems that he wanted Zhang Jue to become what he started calling himself.

If he didn't, I don't think he wouldn't have bothered to encourage him at all. Saint Hermit seems to be one of those mysterious characters who gives someone a great gift and then let them go off to do whatever with it -- sometimes with a warning like what he told him. If there is any competition here, it's going to be against himself in trying to heed the Hermit's warning. That's my two cents, at least.