Information and IdeasVery hardInference from a gap in an abbey's accounts
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The abbey's accounts for 1348 stop in June and resume the following March in a different hand, with the note that the brothers were now few. In 1348 the plague reached the region. A historian could reasonably infer that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the plague killed many of the monks, including the one who had kept the accounts.Correct
- B. the abbey closed for good in 1348.
- C. the monks stopped keeping accounts because they had no money.
- D. the new hand belonged to a visitor.
Answer: A. the plague killed many of the monks, including the one who had kept the accounts.
A stopped hand, a new hand, few brothers.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the abbey closed for good in 1348.
- The accounts resumed.
- C. the monks stopped keeping accounts because they had no money.
- The note explains the gap by numbers, not money.
- D. the new hand belonged to a visitor.
- Nothing suggests a visitor.
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