Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about failure
Information and Ideas practice question
A student argues that the essay's author regards failure as instructive.
Which quotation from the essay would best support the student's claim?
- A. 'Every bridge I have designed well stands on the ruins of one I got wrong.'Correct
- B. 'I have never failed, and I intend never to start.'
- C. 'The bridge opened on a Tuesday, in light rain.'
- D. 'Failure is a word I refuse to use.'
Answer: A. 'Every bridge I have designed well stands on the ruins of one I got wrong.'
Good bridges built on earlier wrong ones — failure as the foundation of later success.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'I have never failed, and I intend never to start.'
- A boast of never failing says nothing about learning from it.
- C. 'The bridge opened on a Tuesday, in light rain.'
- A neutral detail about an opening day.
- D. 'Failure is a word I refuse to use.'
- Refusing the word suggests denial, not instruction.
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