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Craft and Structure practice question
On the first Monday of May the parish walks its boundary, a twelve-mile circuit over fields and through one back garden whose owner provides tea. The walk once fixed the boundary in memory before there were maps; it now fixes the parish in the memory of the walkers, which the council reckons is worth a day.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
- A. To describe the boundary walk and explain how its purpose has changed.Correct
- B. To argue that the walk should be shortened.
- C. To describe the back garden.
- D. To recount the history of maps.
Answer: A. To describe the boundary walk and explain how its purpose has changed.
Once for the boundary; now for the parish.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To argue that the walk should be shortened.
- Not argued.
- C. To describe the back garden.
- One detail.
- D. To recount the history of maps.
- Maps are mentioned once.
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