8th Grade Reading Quiz
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At the shelter, the dogs barked like alarms, each one insisting its loneliness was the loudest. I walked past the cages slowly, trying not to meet too many eyes at once. A small brown dog sat perfectly still, watching me with a patience that felt older than it should.
The volunteer handed me a leash and said, "He's been returned twice." Returned. The word sounded like a package, like something that could be stamped and sent away. I crouched down. The dog leaned forward, careful as a question.
I didn't know why, but I remembered the parable of the Good Samaritan, someone stopping when others kept moving. I wasn't heroic. I just couldn't keep walking.
Why does the author allude to the Good Samaritan in this passage?
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