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The abbey's kitchen accounts list purchases of pepper and ginger every month until 1348, then none for six years, then regular purchases again. This suggests that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. something interrupted the abbey's supply of spices, or its ability to buy them, for six years from 1348.Correct
  2. B. the monks gave up eating in 1348.
  3. C. the accounts for those six years were never kept.
  4. D. pepper and ginger were banned.

Answer: A. something interrupted the abbey's supply of spices, or its ability to buy them, for six years from 1348.

A six-year gap in a regular record, then resumption: an interruption of supply or means.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the monks gave up eating in 1348.
Purchases of other things continued; only spices stopped.
C. the accounts for those six years were never kept.
The accounts exist for those years; they just lack spice purchases.
D. pepper and ginger were banned.
No ban is suggested, and purchases resumed.

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