Information and IdeasMediumInference from a contrast in two records
Information and Ideas practice question
The school's register for 1903 shows attendance dropping by half every September and October, then recovering in November. The parish's farm accounts for the same years show the harvest and the potato lifting in September and October. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. many children were kept home from school to help with the harvest.Correct
- B. the school closed in the autumn.
- C. children were ill every autumn.
- D. the register was kept carelessly.
Answer: A. many children were kept home from school to help with the harvest.
Attendance halves exactly during the harvest months: the children were in the fields.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the school closed in the autumn.
- Half the pupils still attended.
- C. children were ill every autumn.
- Illness would not track the harvest so exactly.
- D. the register was kept carelessly.
- A consistent seasonal pattern suggests accurate records.
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