Information and IdeasHardInference from uneven drawing skill
Information and Ideas practice question
The margins of the medieval manuscript are crowded with animals. The creatures of Europe — deer, boar, wolves — are drawn with confident accuracy, while the elephant and the crocodile look nothing like the real animals. This suggests that the artist ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. had seen the European animals but knew the exotic ones only from descriptions.Correct
- B. was more skilled at drawing large animals than small ones.
- C. had travelled to Africa and observed the animals there.
- D. deliberately made the exotic animals look absurd.
Answer: A. had seen the European animals but knew the exotic ones only from descriptions.
Accurate where the animals were local, inaccurate where they were far away: the simplest explanation is firsthand knowledge of one group and secondhand knowledge of the other.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. was more skilled at drawing large animals than small ones.
- Size doesn't sort the two groups — boar are smaller than elephants but drawn well, deer larger than crocodiles' heads and also drawn well.
- C. had travelled to Africa and observed the animals there.
- An artist who had seen elephants and crocodiles would presumably draw them better, not worse.
- D. deliberately made the exotic animals look absurd.
- The text gives no sign of intent; it contrasts accuracy with inaccuracy.
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