Question

The Interlopers
by Saki

The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.



"The Interlopers" by H.H. Munro ("Saki")

Use the passage to answer the question.

What is the author implying through the narrator’s direct words?

(1 point)

that Gradwitz had been willing to share the land with his neighbors as long as they did not take part in poaching on the land

that the neighboring family had been innocent of the charges brought against them and were unfairly stripped of their land

that the neighboring family had willingly accepted the judgment of the Courts but were nonetheless persecuted by the Gradwitz family

that Gradwitz mainly prized the strip of land on the outskirt of the forest because it was won through the Courts

Answer 1

That the Gradwitz family mainly prized the strip because it had been won through the Courts (choice 4).

Explanation: the narrator says the strip was "not remarkable for the game" but "the most jealously guarded" and notes a famous lawsuit that wrested it from neighbors, implying its value comes from the legal victory.