Information and IdeasVery hardUndermining a claim about handwriting and composition
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Biographers have claimed that the novelist's distinctive late style depended on the physical act of longhand drafting — that the pen's slowness was, for her, the pace at which her sentences could form at all. ____
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the biographers' claim?
- A. Manuscripts of her most celebrated later novels show she drafted them fluently by dictation to a secretary.Correct
- B. Her early notebooks contain doodles in the margins of nearly every page.
- C. She purchased large quantities of paper and ink throughout her life.
- D. Her secretary later published a memoir praising her kindness.
Answer: A. Manuscripts of her most celebrated later novels show she drafted them fluently by dictation to a secretary.
The claim makes longhand drafting essential to her mature style; celebrated late novels composed by dictation contradict the supposed necessity directly.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Her early notebooks contain doodles in the margins of nearly every page.
- Marginal doodles neither confirm nor refute the role of longhand drafting.
- C. She purchased large quantities of paper and ink throughout her life.
- Paper purchases are consistent with any drafting method.
- D. Her secretary later published a memoir praising her kindness.
- The memoir's praise is irrelevant to how the novels were composed.
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