Read the passage from "The Goatherd and the Wild
Goats"
Which statement accurately explains the theme most
exemplified in this passage?
A goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide,
found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut
them up together with his own for the night.
O Good leaders treat everyone the same.
O Kindness inspires others to be kind
O Strangers cannot always be trusted.
O Ingratitude leads to unhappiness
The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not
take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was
obliged to keep them in the fold.
He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them
alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope
of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his
own
When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the
Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the
mountains
The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving