Information and IdeasHardInference about a repaired manuscript
Information and Ideas practice question
The manuscript's final pages are in a different hand from the rest, on paper of a different weight, and the story they tell ends the plot in a few hurried paragraphs. The librarian who catalogued it concluded that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the original ending was lost and a later owner supplied a replacement.Correct
- B. the author wrote the whole manuscript in one sitting.
- C. the final pages are the oldest part of the manuscript.
- D. the manuscript was never finished.
Answer: A. the original ending was lost and a later owner supplied a replacement.
Different hand, different paper, a hurried ending: added later.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the author wrote the whole manuscript in one sitting.
- Two hands rule out one sitting.
- C. the final pages are the oldest part of the manuscript.
- Nothing suggests the ending is older.
- D. the manuscript was never finished.
- It has an ending, just a replaced one.
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