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Craft and Structure practice question

Reviewers keep calling the novel 'unfilmable', as though the word were praise. It is really a description of the novel's method: the story lives in what the narrator declines to say, and a film would have to say it. The word is accurate. It is also beside the point, because the novel was not written to be filmed.

What is the main purpose of the text?

  1. A. To argue that a common label for the novel is accurate but irrelevant to judging the novel.Correct
  2. B. To argue that the novel should be made into a film.
  3. C. To praise the narrator for her honesty.
  4. D. To explain how films are adapted from novels.

Answer: A. To argue that a common label for the novel is accurate but irrelevant to judging the novel.

'The word is accurate. It is also beside the point' — the text grants the label and denies its relevance.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. To argue that the novel should be made into a film.
The text says the novel wasn't written to be filmed.
C. To praise the narrator for her honesty.
The narrator's reticence is described, not praised.
D. To explain how films are adapted from novels.
Adaptation is mentioned only to explain the label.

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