Widow Wiggins's Wonderful Cat (excerpt)
Edward Eggleston
1 Widow Wiggins was a wee, wiry, weird woman, with a wonderful cat -- a very wonderful cat, indeed!
2 The neighbors all said it was bewitched. Perhaps it was; I don't know; but a very wonderful cat it was. It had a strange way of knowing, when people were talking, whether what they said was right or wrong.
3 If people said what they ought not to say, wee Widow Wiggins' wonderful cat would mew. Perhaps the cat had lived so long with the wee, wiry, weird widow woman, who was one of the best in the world, that it had gotten her dislike to things that were wrong.
4 But the wee widow's neighbors were afraid of that cat.
5 When Mrs. Vine, a very vile, vinegar-tongued, vixenish virago, abused her neighbors to the wee, wiry, weird, widow woman, the Widow Wiggins' wonderful cat would mew. And so the vile, vixenish virago wished the cat was dead.
6 And when slender, slim, slippery Sly Slick, Esq., tried to persuade the widow to swindle her neighbor, the cat mewed furiously. And so it came that Mr. Slick did not like the wee widow's wonderful cat. In fact, he said it was a nuisance.
7 And Tilda Tattle, the tiresome-tongued, town tale-bearer, could not abide the cat, because it mewed all the time she was tattling.
Question
Which statement retells the passage best?
Responses
A Sly Slick does not like Widow Wiggins' evil-revealing cat.Sly Slick does not like Widow Wiggins' evil-revealing cat.
B Mrs. Vine wishes that Widow Wiggins' evil-revealing cat were dead.Mrs. Vine wishes that Widow Wiggins' evil-revealing cat were dead.
C Widow Wiggins has a wonderful cat who can tell when people are lying.Widow Wiggins has a wonderful cat who can tell when people are lying.
D Tilda Tattle does not like the way Widow Wiggins' cat mews at her tattling.
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