Explanation

Question 

Nobody knows when fiction started. Perhaps, the first storyteller was a prehistoric mother trying to explain the world to her children. Or maybe it was a hunter telling about his adventures around the campfire. Who can tell? What we do know, though, is that story-telling was a purely oral activity around 800 BC. Myths and tales were passed down by word of mouth and had to be memorized by each new generation of storytellers. This oral tradition only examples of Homer, a blind professional storyteller, who lived in the eighth century BC.

It is stressed in the passage that story-telling 

A was first introduced by Homer in ancient times

B possibly began in prehistoric times

C began as a written activity

D None

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the contextual meaning of fiction is:

A. Narrative

B. Textbook

C, Prose

D. Truth

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Myths were passed down by:

A. written scriptures

B. carved activity

C. by word of mouth 

D. inscribed activity