Information and IdeasHardEvidence for a claim about a novel's source
Information and Ideas practice question
A literary scholar argues that a novelist based the fictional town in her novel on the real town of Marlow, where she lived for a year.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The novel's town has a church, a bridge, and a mill in exactly the positions they occupy in Marlow, and the novelist's letters from Marlow describe scenes that appear almost word for word in the book.Correct
- B. The novelist lived in several towns during her life.
- C. Many novels of the period are set in small towns.
- D. Marlow has a bridge.
Answer: A. The novel's town has a church, a bridge, and a mill in exactly the positions they occupy in Marlow, and the novelist's letters from Marlow describe scenes that appear almost word for word in the book.
Matching layout and matching letters.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The novelist lived in several towns during her life.
- Other towns weaken, not support, the claim.
- C. Many novels of the period are set in small towns.
- A generality.
- D. Marlow has a bridge.
- Many towns have bridges.
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