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All right Reading shmoop er's let's get to the question

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here right there This past implies that prior to the

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publication of children's and household tails what happened Let's go

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back and read this thing The publication of jacob and

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wilhelm grimm's children's and household tails two hundred years ago

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fucked enormous interest in traditional story as told among the

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common folk the common people inspired by the grimm's methods

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researchers began venturing outside the library and into villages to

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collect colorful tales of magical beast wicked stepmothers enchanted objects

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and unrelenting heroes Not one of the most exciting discoveries

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to come from these studies was the repetition of the

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same plots among different societies and ethnic groups right rich

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and poor We all likes us Ah good wicked stepmother

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The passage starts off by saying the publication of children's

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and household tail sparked interest in stories told by common

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people So it's reasonable to infer that there wasn't a

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whole lot of interest before then Well that's essentially what

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sparked means here and well that it started the whole

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thing So the answer is c there was little interest

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in stories told by common people before this it alright

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loser Bolt well although it would be interesting if it

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did the text doesn't discuss the number references The wicked

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stepmothers in the past and doesn't state that storytelling was

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an oral tradition And also although kids back in the

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day probably did have a lot less time for entertainment

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well that's Not something we can infer from the text

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So all those go away The answer is C

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