11. Read the following sentence from “The Balek Scales.”
My grandfather was the first person bold enough to test the justice of the Baleks, the family who lived in the chateau and drove two carriages, who always maintained one boy from the village while he studied theology at the seminary in Prague, the family with whom the priest played taroc every Wednesday, on whom the local reeve in his carriage emblazoned with the imperial coat of arms, made an annual New Year’s Day call and on whom the Emperor conferred a title on the first day of the year in 1900.
The speaker uses the ideas in this se

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11. Read the following sentence from “The Balek Scales.”
My grandfather was the first person bold enough to test the justice of the Baleks, the family who lived in the chateau and drove two carriages, who always maintained one boy from the village while he studied theology at the seminary in Prague, the family with whom the priest played taroc every Wednesday, on whom the local reeve in his carriage emblazoned with the imperial coat of arms, made an annual New Year’s Day call and on whom the Emperor conferred a title on the first day of the year in 1900.
The speaker uses the ideas in this se

mellamokatie · Answer

nce to MOST LIKELY imply that the Baleks __________
A. Are generous to the people who lived in the village.
B. Worked hard to earn their new title from the emperor.
C. Mindlessly fulfill the duties required of their social status.***
D. Did not trust the narrator’s grandfather and were suspicious of him.

osprey · Answer

first person bold enough to test the justice of the Baleks

That bit from the narrator suggests to me that it would be D, if D were that the narrator and grandfather didn't trust the Baleks. But,that's not how the text is written.
The most neutral in the list after D is probably B. Since the emperor is mentioned in the text in an implicitly positive way, then I'd go for B.

mellamokatie · Answer

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