Question 20
Read the excerpt given below and fill in the blanks for the given subquestions with the verb forms that best fit the passage from the options provided. Your chosen answer should maintain the tense consistency and the narrative pattern of the excerpt.
A soft melancholy seemed to brood over Shokujo, the daughter of the Sun, but she never [i] _____ of working for the good of others, and especially did she busy herself at her loom; indeed, she came to be called the Weaving Princess.
The Sun [ii] _____ him that if he could give his daughter in marriage, all would be well; her dormant love would be kindled into a flame that [iii] _____ her whole being and drive out the pensive spirit which oppressed her. Kingen was a right honest herdsman who [iv] _____ his cows on the borders of the Heavenly Stream. The Sun-King proposed to bestow his daughter on Kingen. The love that bound Shokujo and Kingen to one another was a great love. With its awakening, Shokujo [v] _____ her former occupations, nor did she any longer labor industriously at the loom, but laughed, and danced, and sang, and made merry from morning till night.
Excerpted from: Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods. Retold by Frank Rinder, The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, 2014, p. 67. Project Gutenberg,
Find the appropriate verb form to fill in blank [v].
Forsook
Forsaken
Forsakes
Forsaked