Read the beginning of "Rumpelstiltskin" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
There was once a poor Miller who had a beautiful daughter, and one day, having to go to speak with the King, he said, in
order to make himself appear of consequence, that he had a daughter who could spin straw into gold. The King was very
fond of gold, and thought to himself, "That is an art which would please me very well"; and so he said to the Miller, "If your
daughter is so very clever, bring her to the castle in the morning, and I will put her to the proof."
Which statement best describes the role of dialogue in this excerpt?
OIt introduces the character of the miller.
OIt moves the story forward and introduces the conflict.
OIt introduces the character of the miller's daughter.
OIt tells how the miller and his daughter plan to trick the king.

c. with one finger is the answer

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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.