Question

Read the following sentences and answer the question that follows:
a. A hunter, however, comes to the rescue and cuts the wolf open. Immediately, Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed.
b. This tale is about a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, she always wears the red hooded cape. Every day, the girl walks into the woods to deliver food to her grandmother.
c. One day, a wolf approaches the girl and she naively tells him where she is going.
d. In the meantime, the wolf goes to the grandmother's house and eats her. When the girl arrives he eats her too.
e. He suggests the girl pick some flowers for her grandmother who was keeping unwell. She does so.

What is the moral of the story?
      (a)Always meet your grandmother in the forest.
      (b)Never listen to strangers.
      (c)Never be friends with a wolf.
      (d)Never tell the truth.

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentences and try to understand the story and the lesson it delivers. Now go through the options and choose the one which expresses the lesson in the best way possible.

Complete answer: The moral is the significance of a story or event. As an adjective, moral is concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behaviour and character based on those principles.
Let us analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a),' Always meet your grandmother in the forest', is incorrect as it does not fit into the context of the story, and it does not have any moral in it either.
Option (b), ‘Never listen to strangers', is correct as it contains a learning, a moral, and this moral fits into context since if the girl had followed it, the negative events would not have taken place.
Option (c), ‘Never be friends with a wolf', is incorrect as the girl was not friends with the wolf in the first place.
Option (d), ‘Never tell the truth', is incorrect as it is not a moral or learning.

Note: In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of a story. A story is a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events. It can be a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program.