PART B: Which sentence from the folktale best demonstrates this idea? A. [ “A peasant once had a faithful horse, but it had grown old and could no longer doits work.” (Paragraph 1) B. “‘Only the poor consolation of telling me that if I was strong enough to bring him a lion he would keep me, but he knows well enough that the task is beyond me.’” (Paragraph 5) C. “Then the horse sprang up, and dragged the lion away behind him.” (Paragraph 9) D.“When the master saw him he was delighted, and said to him: ‘You shall stay with me, and have a good time as long as you live.’” (Paragraph 10)

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.