Multiple choice

The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal _________.

  1. vainglories

  2. prevarications

  3. verities

  4. grotesques
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The second part of the sentence - “being proper… the fancy” provides the clue for the blank. Therefore, the blank characterizes the universal reality or truth of these fables. Thus “verities” (a principle, belief etc. taken to be fundamentally and permanently true) fits our prediction. Hence, (3) is the answer.

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