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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The village's population is rising, argues parish clerk Ivy Lund, since the electoral roll has grown by fifty names in two years. Text 2 The roll grew when the county added the new estate's residents to this parish for voting purposes in 2024. The estate is two miles away and its residents shop, school, and worship elsewhere. The census count for the village itself fell by twelve.

Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely say that Lund ____

  1. A. has mistaken an administrative change for real growth in the village.Correct
  2. B. is wrong that the roll has grown.
  3. C. should count the estate's residents twice.
  4. D. has misread the census.

Answer: A. has mistaken an administrative change for real growth in the village.

A boundary change, not new villagers; the census fell.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. is wrong that the roll has grown.
Text 2 accepts the roll's growth.
C. should count the estate's residents twice.
Not proposed.
D. has misread the census.
Lund doesn't cite the census.

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