Which of the following best summarizes how the “learned men” of the kingdom answer his questions? A. Their answers are similar. B. Their answers are unified and concise. C. Their answers are contradictory. D. Their answers are too varied for the king to decide.

In the story Three Questions a king has three questions, obviously, that he needs answered.
The first question is, when is the right time to do anything? The second question is, who are the most important people to turn to and to avoid?The third question is, what is most important thing to do?
He calls various wise men to his side in order to get an answer to his questions. However, they all provide him with different and non-satisfying answers.
He decides to dress as a commoner in order to visit a hermit, or a Wise Man. He goes to the woods with a bodyguard and tells him to stay and watch for followers.
When the king sees the hermit the hermit is digging holes. The king asks his questions many times and helps the hermit shovel for a day. The next a man with a wound falls down in front of the king and hermit.
They help him and it turns out that the man was a warrior from another kingdom. He said that the king killed his brother in battle. He came to kill the king but was wounded by his bodyguard.
The man promises to be his most loyal servant for saving his life. The hermit then tells the man that his question was answered.
The right time was when he had stayed longer than he expected to shovel( the right time was now). The right person was the hermit(the person whom you are with in the now). The most important thing to do was help the hermit(the thing that presents itself int the now).

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annyksl annyksl · Answer 2 · 2021-08-24T22:14:35+02:00

The learned men of the kingdom give very different, varied, diverse answers and this leaves the king confused.

With that, we can say that option D is the correct answer.

Although you did not present the text that your question refers to, after researching similar questions to yours, I could see that this question is about the story "Three Questions" written by Leo Tolstoy.

In this story, we can see that:

A king had very specific doubts about how to know the right time to act, what to do when that time came, and how to know which people he should avoid or help.
He asks the learned men of the kingdom about it.
The men's answers are not satisfactory and leave the king even more confused.
This happens because the answers are not linear and objective, but rather varied, flawed and very different from each other.
The king then dresses like a commoner and walks until he finds a hermit.
He asks the hermit the same questions.
The hermit does not answer these questions immediately, but lets the king arrive at the answers he needs, through the experiences he lives with, together with the hermit.

With this, we can conclude that the story written by Tolstoy conveys a very important message for us. This is because this story shows us that it takes more than academic instruction to make us wise, as wisdom also comes from experiences and from observation and interaction between people, their stories and their lives.

You can find more information about "Three Questions" at the link below.

https://brainly.com/question/21516591?referrer=searchResults