Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about a character's self-deception
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the narrator of the novel does not recognise her own loneliness.
Which quotation from the novel would best support the critic's claim?
- A. 'I have never minded eating alone; I set two places out of habit, that is all, and clear the second away untouched.'Correct
- B. 'I miss them terribly and say so to anyone who will listen.'
- C. 'The house was full of guests that summer.'
- D. 'I have always preferred my own company and know it.'
Answer: A. 'I have never minded eating alone; I set two places out of habit, that is all, and clear the second away untouched.'
'Never minded' and 'habit', yet a second place set and cleared away: loneliness she doesn't name.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'I miss them terribly and say so to anyone who will listen.'
- Openly stated loneliness is the opposite of not recognising it.
- C. 'The house was full of guests that summer.'
- A full house says nothing about self-deception.
- D. 'I have always preferred my own company and know it.'
- Self-knowledge, not self-deception.
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