Craft and StructureVery hardFunction of the last sentence about an inventory
Craft and Structure practice question
The inventory of the house lists every object in every room, down to the number of spoons. It does not list a single book. The family was literate; its letters survive by the hundred. Either books were not counted as property, or they had all been lent, or the house had none and the letters were written elsewhere. The inventory, so exact about spoons, is silent where it might have told us most.
Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence in the text as a whole?
- A. It points to the inventory's silence as its most telling feature, given its precision elsewhere.Correct
- B. It praises the inventory's accuracy.
- C. It explains why the family owned no books.
- D. It lists what the inventory contains.
Answer: A. It points to the inventory's silence as its most telling feature, given its precision elsewhere.
Exact about spoons, silent about books.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It praises the inventory's accuracy.
- Accuracy is granted and then turned.
- C. It explains why the family owned no books.
- The question stays open.
- D. It lists what the inventory contains.
- The contents are in the first sentence.
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