Read the passage from chapter 2 of animal farm. the pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by moses, the tame raven. moses, who was mr. jones's especial pet, was a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker. he claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called sugarcandy mountain, to which all animals went when they died. it was situated somewhere up in the sky, a little distance beyond the clouds, moses said. in sugarcandy mountain it was sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. the animals hated moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in sugarcandy mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place. which prediction does this passage best support? a) moses and his stories will complicate the pigs’ control over the other animals. b) the pigs will adopt moses’s ideas and promote them on animal farm. c) moses will die and end up on sugarcandy mountain, thus proving its existence. d) the animals will demand that moses leave the farm and will force him out.

The answer is most likely A because it tells us that the pigs struggled to debunk the stories that Moses told the animals. It also shows us that the pigs had to try super hard to persuade the animals who believed in Sugarcandy Mountain that it didn't exist.

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A) Moses and his stories will complicate the pigs’ control over the other animals.

Explanation:

This is the prediction that is best supported by the paragraph. We know that the beliefs that Moses is teaching the animals are likely to complicate the pigs' control over the animals for two reasons. First, we know that the pigs most likely believe that, as they argue very hard to persuade them that there is no such place. Second, we know that Moses and his beliefs are a reference to Christianity, and we know from history how authoritarian regimes often discourage Christianity as they believed it made the population more difficult to control.

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when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.