Information and IdeasVery hardMain idea: a return to a childhood house
Information and Ideas practice question
The following text is from a short story.
The house was smaller than Ines remembered, which she had been warned to expect, but it was also louder: the fridge hummed, the stairs complained, the wind found the same gap under the back door it had found when she was nine. She had come to sign the papers and leave. She stood in the kitchen for an hour instead, listening to a house that had not noticed she had grown up.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. Returning to sell her childhood home, Ines is held there by the familiar sounds of a house that seems unchanged.Correct
- B. Ines is disappointed that the house is smaller than she remembered.
- C. The house needs repairs before it can be sold.
- D. Ines decides not to sell the house.
Answer: A. Returning to sell her childhood home, Ines is held there by the familiar sounds of a house that seems unchanged.
She came to leave and stayed to listen.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Ines is disappointed that the house is smaller than she remembered.
- The size was expected; the sounds are the point.
- C. The house needs repairs before it can be sold.
- Repairs are not mentioned.
- D. Ines decides not to sell the house.
- The text does not say she changes her decision.
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