Part A Which response most accurately explains how the old woman develops a theme of the story? Her negative attitude develops the theme that with age comes intolerance. Her treatment of Mundra develops the theme that some people are incapable of building bonds with others. Her abundant energy develops the theme that age is only a number. Her treatment of Mundra develops the theme that some people derive tremendous power by abusing others. Question 2 Part B Which quotation from the text best supports the response to Part A? “The old woman was not so busily engaged with this task, however, as to be unable to give her attention to other things.” “…and her mother-in-law had been pleased with her and greeted her with kind words,...” ‘”Bring water," the old woman commanded fiercely and with a thrust of her foot sent the child, who had reached the door by that time,…” “But the woman seemed to be giving vent to her own ill nature in an evidently customary and certainly vivid way.”