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He said to the snail,”You can’t run! All you know is how to crawl on the ground.”  \nThe snail said,”Come and see on Sunday.”  \nThe snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.  \nThe snail handed out the pieces of paper to his friends and said,”When the rabbit comes here calling me, one of you must say: I am the snail.”  \nThen the snail told his friends to hide behind the bushes where the rabbit and the snail were to pass.  \nOn Sunday, the rabbit arrived and found the snail. The rabbit said,”Let have a race . But I will win.”  \nSnails lined up behind trees on the racing track so that each time the rabbit passed, asnail would shout, ‘I am the snail…’ During the race, the rabbit called out,”Snail! Snail!”  \nOne of the snails hidden behind the bushes answered,”I am the snail! I am the snail!”  \nFinally, the rabbit was very tired. He lay down, saying,”Snail, I am so tired; you have won .”One snail watched from behind the bush.","cbCaii7V9JeK2ND2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii7V9JeK2ND2","pdf",541014,12,"English","# The Challenge\n## The Rabbit's Boast\n## The Snail's Plan\n# The Race\n## Execution of the Strategy\n## The Rabbit's Exhaustion\n# Conclusion\n## The Snail's Victory","[{\"question\":\"How did the snail trick the rabbit during the race?\",\"answer\":\"The snail wrote messages and gave them to friends hiding behind bushes along the track; whenever the rabbit called out, one of the friends would answer, 'I am the snail,' making it seem as if the snail was always ahead of him.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the moral lesson of this Mozambican folktale?\",\"answer\":\"The story illustrates that arrogance can be defeated by wit, strategy, and collective cooperation, proving that physical strength or speed is not always the deciding factor in success.\"},{\"question\":\"Who are the primary characters in the story?\",\"answer\":\"The primary characters are a fast but arrogant rabbit and an intelligent, resourceful snail who uses teamwork to outsmart his opponent.\"}]","The Race - A Mozambican Folktale | PDF",1789893902,18]