Question

What is the central idea of this excerpt?

The stories are not collected from peasants, but from literate people.
The Grimms collected stories about real living conditions from people they trusted.
The Grimms did not know the informants who gave contributors their stories.
The 19th century was the golden age of folk and fairy tales.

Answer 1

"The stories are not collected from peasants, but from literate people."

This choice best summarizes the passage's main point — that the Grimms' tale sources were literate informants rather than uneducated peasants.