Information and IdeasHardChoosing a quotation that illustrates a claim
Information and Ideas practice question
A student claims that the narrator of a memoir finds the city both exhausting and impossible to leave.
Which quotation from the memoir would best support the student's claim?
- A. "By nightfall the noise had hollowed me out, and still I walked back into it."Correct
- B. "The trains ran late all that week."
- C. "I moved to the coast the following spring and never returned."
- D. "The city has more than eight million people."
Answer: A. "By nightfall the noise had hollowed me out, and still I walked back into it."
Both halves of the claim are in one line: 'hollowed me out' is exhaustion, and 'still I walked back into it' is the pull the narrator can't resist.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. "The trains ran late all that week."
- Late trains are an inconvenience, not the narrator's feelings about the city.
- C. "I moved to the coast the following spring and never returned."
- Leaving and never returning contradicts 'impossible to leave'.
- D. "The city has more than eight million people."
- A population figure says nothing about the narrator's feelings.
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