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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?

  1. A. the sister.Correct
  2. B. the schoolfriend.
  3. C. the writer's husband.
  4. 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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