6 Read the excerpt from White Fang.
The four Indians laughed more loudly, while even the man who had been bitten began to laugh. They surrounded
[White Fang) and laughed at him, while he wailed out his terror and his hurt. In the midst of it, he heard something.
The Indians heard it, too. But the cub knew what it was, and with a last, long wail that had in it more of triumph than
grief, he ceased his noise and waited for the coming of his mother, of his ferocious and indomitable mother who
fought and killed all things and was never afraid. She was snarling as she ran. She had heard the cry of her cub and
was dashing to save him.
Which best states White Fang's perspective in the excerpt?
O He is angry at the men and feeling protective of his mother.
O He is afraid of the men and relieved to hear his mother coming.
O He is unafraid of the men and amused by his mother's snarling.
O He is curious about the men and afraid of disappointing his mother.

8 ish depending on the what grade

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the answer is b. i read this story before.