Craft and StructureVery hardFunction of a closing sentence about an inventory
Craft and Structure practice question
The inventory made at the merchant's death lists every object in the house, room by room, down to the number of spoons. Historians prize such lists for what they reveal of daily life. This one reveals something else as well. The study, alone among the rooms, is listed with its door locked and its contents unrecorded, and the executors' note says only that the family asked it be left so.
Which choice best describes the function of the last sentence in the text as a whole?
- A. It presents the detail that makes the inventory unusual, an absence in an otherwise complete record.Correct
- B. It lists the contents of the study.
- C. It explains why historians value inventories.
- D. It describes the merchant's death.
Answer: A. It presents the detail that makes the inventory unusual, an absence in an otherwise complete record.
A locked room in a list of spoons.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It lists the contents of the study.
- The contents are unrecorded.
- C. It explains why historians value inventories.
- That is in the second sentence.
- D. It describes the merchant's death.
- The death is only the occasion of the list.
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