Read the passage from "by the waters of babylon.”

i went north—i did not try to hide myself. when a god or a demon saw me, then i would die, but meanwhile i was no longer afraid. my hunger for knowledge burned in me—there was so much that i could not understand.

what does the narrator’s response to the setting reveal about his character?

his desire to follow society’s rules is greater than his own ideas.
his desire to explore is greater than his fear of where he is going.
he is concerned that the forces of nature are more powerful than his will.
he is afraid that his fear will eventually prevent him from learning.

B) His desire to explore is greater than his fear of where he is going.

Explanation: in the given passage from "By the Waters of Babylon," we can see that the narrator is explaining how he isn't afraid of gods, demons or death, he knows that he will eventually die, but in the meantime, he decided to travel and learn as much as he can. From the given options, the one that expresses what the passage reveals about his character, is the corresponding to option B: His desire to explore is greater than his fear of where he is going.

that’s the kind of bug henry was; and if we’d a had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d a fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.”

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.