5. Read these short passages from "The Dancing Partner." During which passage does the story's main theme become clear? 1. Then for a couple of weeks he kept much to his factory, and was very thoughtful and busy, though prone at unexpected moments to break into a quiet low laugh, as if enjoying a joke that nobody else knew of.

2. A stream of blood showed itself down the girl's white frock, and followed her along the floor. The affair was becoming horrible

3. As she grew more familiar with the uncanny creature, the girl's nervousness wore off, and she entered into the fun of the thing.

0) "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, support structures, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important. which two central ideas in this story are most closely related?