Information and IdeasHardEvidence that an anonymous author was a sailor
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the anonymous author of an eighteenth-century sea novel must have served at sea, rather than writing from books as many contemporaries did.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The novel uses dozens of technical terms for rigging and sail-handling correctly, including several that period reference books consistently get wrong.Correct
- B. The novel is set on a ship.
- C. The novel was popular with sailors.
- D. Other sea novels of the period were written by landsmen.
Answer: A. The novel uses dozens of technical terms for rigging and sail-handling correctly, including several that period reference books consistently get wrong.
Knowledge that books of the time could not have supplied.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The novel is set on a ship.
- Setting can be borrowed from books.
- C. The novel was popular with sailors.
- Readership is not authorship.
- D. Other sea novels of the period were written by landsmen.
- About other novels.
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