Information and IdeasEasy–MediumMain idea: a village bread festival
Information and Ideas practice question
Every October the village of Ashby holds a bread festival. Bakers from the surrounding farms bring loaves made from that year's wheat, and the whole village judges them. The prize is small, a wooden spoon, but families have competed for it for six generations, and the recipes are guarded like heirlooms.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. Ashby's bread festival is a long-standing tradition that matters to the village far more than its small prize suggests.Correct
- B. The bread festival's prize is a wooden spoon.
- C. Bakers in Ashby use wheat from that year's harvest.
- D. Bread festivals are common in farming villages.
Answer: A. Ashby's bread festival is a long-standing tradition that matters to the village far more than its small prize suggests.
Six generations and guarded recipes for a spoon.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The bread festival's prize is a wooden spoon.
- A detail.
- C. Bakers in Ashby use wheat from that year's harvest.
- A detail.
- D. Bread festivals are common in farming villages.
- Only Ashby is discussed.
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