Read the passage and answer the question:
This is an age-old tale. A mother and her daughter Satto, lived in a village. During that time, the forests were full of fruits and flowers. The women and girls of the village used to go and pluck these fruits and flowers. All of them used to pluck the sweet flowers of the mahua (Bassia Latifolia) tree, stored them at home and consumed them later.
One day, all of them plucked the sweet flowers and kept them in their rooms without drying them. Satto's mother was not at home. Satto dried the sweet flowers. As the flowers dried, they shrank. Later on when Satto's mother came home, she found very little flowers and thought that either Satto had eaten the flowers or she had given them to the village girls. In her blind rage, she beat her daughter to death. The women and girls of the village told her that she killed her daughter for such a trivial issue. They asked her to soak the flowers in water. When she soaked the mahuas, they swelled up and the entire room was filled with the flowers. Satto's mother was full of remorse. She regretted the fact that she killed her daughter without thinking. She died because of grief.
She was reborn as the pandak bird. The pandak bird still sings this song-
'Daughter Satto, the mahuas were in proper quantity...'
According to the passage, What kind of tale is the translated story?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Age-old tale
The passage opens with "This is an age-old tale." An age-old story is one that has been told for a very long time and handed down from generation to generation, as folk tales are; the closing lines show it lives on in the song of the pandak bird.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Fairy tale — Incorrect. Misread: a fairy tale is a children's story about fairies, magic and enchanted beings; the passage calls its story age-old, and its people are ordinary village women and girls.
Option 2: Modern tale — Incorrect. Contradicted: the story is set in a time when "the forests were full of fruits and flowers" and is called age-old, the opposite of modern.
Option 4: Disney tale — Incorrect. Not mentioned: nothing in the passage links the story to any film company; it is an old village tale.