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Read the following passages and choose the correct option to answer the questions that follow:

Karuna - The Little Girl

A long/ long time ago, when animals could speak, amidst towering hills, there was a tiny little kingdom, in a tiny little valley. And at the very edge of the valley was a tiny little hut. In that hut lived a girl named Karuna Every day, she went into the jungle to collect fruits and plants to make medicines. Her grandmother had been a vaid and had taught her to make many different kinds of medicines. Every day, she gathered a few flowers, making sure to leave most of them on the trees and bushes. "What a fool you are!" the villagers said "If you were to pluck more flowers and dig out more plants, you would make a lot of money." "The birds and the bees need them too, for their food," she said "If I take away most of the flowers, what will they eat?"

The villagers called her a fool because _________

A)  she collected all the flowers

B)    she went forest daily

C)    she did not go to school

D)    she did not pluck more flowers to make more money