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Craft and Structure practice question

The lighthouse keeper's log for 1893 records the weather, the lamp, and the ships that passed, in the same hand and the same ink, every day for the year. On 14 March it records, in the same hand, 'Wife died, 4 a.m.', and then the weather.

Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence?

  1. A. It shows the keeper's discipline holding even through personal grief, by placing a death among the routine entries.Correct
  2. B. It indicates that the keeper did not care about his wife.
  3. C. It describes the weather on 14 March.
  4. D. It suggests that the log was written by someone else that day.

Answer: A. It shows the keeper's discipline holding even through personal grief, by placing a death among the routine entries.

A death recorded like the weather, and then the weather.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It indicates that the keeper did not care about his wife.
Discipline, not indifference, is the point.
C. It describes the weather on 14 March.
The weather is not described.
D. It suggests that the log was written by someone else that day.
'In the same hand.'

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