Craft and StructureEasy–MediumWord for a brief, passing mention
Craft and Structure practice question
The biography devotes three chapters to the composer's years in Vienna but makes only a ____ reference to her decade in Prague, which it covers in a single sentence.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. fleetingCorrect
- B. thorough
- C. hostile
- D. repeated
Answer: A. fleeting
Three chapters versus one sentence: the Prague reference is brief.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. thorough
- A single sentence is the opposite of thorough.
- C. hostile
- Nothing suggests the reference is unfriendly.
- D. repeated
- One sentence is not a repeated mention.
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