Information and IdeasHardInference about a letter's recipient
Information and Ideas practice question
The letter addresses its reader as 'my dear friend' throughout, thanks her for the loan of a book, and asks her to pass on greetings to 'your husband and the little ones'. Since the writer's only surviving correspondence is with her sister and with a schoolfriend who never married, a historian would infer that the letter was written to ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the sister.Correct
- B. the schoolfriend.
- C. the writer's husband.
- D. a stranger.
Answer: A. the sister.
A husband and children rule out the unmarried friend.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the schoolfriend.
- The schoolfriend never married.
- C. the writer's husband.
- The reader is addressed as 'she' and has a husband.
- D. a stranger.
- 'My dear friend' and a book loan suggest intimacy.
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