Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Native American stories often feature a character called the trickster

The question asks about what society thinks of the picaro. The secondparagraph discusses picaro stories; the answer to this question is in the second half of thatparagraph.

The line starting with “to such asociety” says society views the picaro as dangerous. If you read the previous sentence, you find out why: the picaro’s authenticity stands in contrast to society’s apparent hypocrisy. (We can infer that by pointing out society’s hypocrisy, the picaro may force society to live more openly. To avoid that, society marginalizesthe

(D) is correct because paragraph2 describes how the picaro does openly what others in society do secretly, and thus forces them to confront theirhypocrisy.

(E) Paragraph2 says that the consequence of the picaro’s disruptive freedom is marginalization. Marginalization is a seriousconsequence!