Information and IdeasHardInference about intent from a described choice
Information and Ideas practice question
The publisher issued the poet's collected works in two editions: a cheap paperback with no notes, and a hardback with a hundred pages of commentary at four times the price. The paperback sold out in a month. The hardback is still in print, unreprinted, twenty years on. ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. Readers evidently wanted the poems themselves far more than they wanted the scholarly apparatus.Correct
- B. The poems were unpopular.
- C. The hardback was cheaper than the paperback.
- D. The publisher never printed the paperback.
Answer: A. Readers evidently wanted the poems themselves far more than they wanted the scholarly apparatus.
Paperback gone in a month; hardback still unsold: the poems, not the notes.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The poems were unpopular.
- The paperback sold out.
- C. The hardback was cheaper than the paperback.
- It was four times the price.
- D. The publisher never printed the paperback.
- It sold out.
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