Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about memory
Information and Ideas practice question
A student argues that the poem presents memory as unreliable.
Which quotation from the poem would best support the student's claim?
- A. 'I swear the door was blue; my sister swears it green; / the house, long gone, keeps its own counsel.'Correct
- B. 'The summers ran like water through our hands.'
- C. 'I remember everything, and it is a weight.'
- D. 'The photographs are stacked in the attic still.'
Answer: A. 'I swear the door was blue; my sister swears it green; / the house, long gone, keeps its own counsel.'
Two memories of the same door disagree, and the house that could settle it is gone. That is memory shown as unreliable.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'The summers ran like water through our hands.'
- This is about time passing, not memory failing.
- C. 'I remember everything, and it is a weight.'
- This presents memory as complete and burdensome — reliable, if anything.
- D. 'The photographs are stacked in the attic still.'
- Photographs in an attic say nothing about whether memory is trustworthy.
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