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Craft and Structure practice question

The vicar reads the banns of marriage aloud on three Sundays before a wedding, naming the couple and asking whether anyone knows a reason they may not marry. Nobody has objected in living memory. The reading continues because the law still requires it and, the vicar says, because it lets the parish hear its own news from the pulpit.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

  1. A. To describe the reading of the banns and explain why it continues.Correct
  2. B. To argue that the banns should be abolished.
  3. C. To recount an objection to a marriage.
  4. D. To describe the pulpit.

Answer: A. To describe the reading of the banns and explain why it continues.

What is read, and why it goes on.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. To argue that the banns should be abolished.
Not argued.
C. To recount an objection to a marriage.
'Nobody has objected.'
D. To describe the pulpit.
Not described.

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