Information and IdeasVery hardInference from undated manuscript pages
Information and Ideas practice question
The composer dated every page of his manuscripts except those of one work, whose pages carry no dates at all. That work also survives in more drafts than any other, with changes of ink between drafts. A scholar could reasonably infer that the composer ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. returned to that work repeatedly over a long period and may not have regarded it as finished.Correct
- B. wrote that work in a single sitting.
- C. lost interest in that work early.
- D. dated only works he intended to publish.
Answer: A. returned to that work repeatedly over a long period and may not have regarded it as finished.
Many drafts, changing ink, no dates.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. wrote that work in a single sitting.
- Many drafts contradict this.
- C. lost interest in that work early.
- Many drafts contradict this.
- D. dated only works he intended to publish.
- Nothing about publication.
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