Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about adaptation
Information and Ideas practice question
A student argues that the essay's author presents city noise as something people adapt to rather than something they escape.
Which quotation from the essay would best support the student's claim?
- A. 'Within a month the sirens had folded themselves into my sleep, and I woke only for silence.'Correct
- B. 'I left the city because I could not bear the sirens.'
- C. 'The sirens were louder that year than in any year before.'
- D. 'Country nights are the quietest I have ever known.'
Answer: A. 'Within a month the sirens had folded themselves into my sleep, and I woke only for silence.'
Sirens absorbed into sleep, silence the only thing that wakes the author — adaptation, not escape.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'I left the city because I could not bear the sirens.'
- Leaving the city is escape, the opposite of the claim.
- C. 'The sirens were louder that year than in any year before.'
- Loudness says nothing about adapting.
- D. 'Country nights are the quietest I have ever known.'
- Praise for quiet nights points toward escape.
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