Information and IdeasHardInference from a puzzling absence
Information and Ideas practice question
Excavations of the fort's kitchens turned up thousands of fish bones but almost none from the large cod that were the region's main catch at the time. The fort's records show cod bought by the barrel. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the cod arrived at the fort already boned and preserved, so their bones never reached the kitchens.Correct
- B. the fort's records are entirely fictional.
- C. the garrison did not eat fish.
- D. cod were not caught in the region.
Answer: A. the cod arrived at the fort already boned and preserved, so their bones never reached the kitchens.
Cod bought by the barrel, cod bones absent: the fish came processed, bones removed elsewhere.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the fort's records are entirely fictional.
- Rejecting the records outright is a bigger leap than an explanation that fits both records and bones.
- C. the garrison did not eat fish.
- Thousands of fish bones say they did.
- D. cod were not caught in the region.
- The text says cod were the region's main catch.
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