Information and IdeasVery hardQuotation illustrating a claim about a narrator's unreliability
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the memoir's narrator repeatedly reveals, without noticing, that she was the cause of the quarrels she blames on others.
Which quotation from the memoir most effectively illustrates the critic's claim?
- A. "I only told him, quite calmly, that his sister had never liked him, and I cannot think why he took it so badly."Correct
- B. "I admit that I was often to blame for our arguments."
- C. "He had a temper, and everyone in the family knew it."
- D. "We rarely quarrelled, and when we did it was over nothing."
Answer: A. "I only told him, quite calmly, that his sister had never liked him, and I cannot think why he took it so badly."
A provocation reported as calm, and bafflement at the reaction: the cause she doesn't see.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. "I admit that I was often to blame for our arguments."
- She notices; the claim is that she doesn't.
- C. "He had a temper, and everyone in the family knew it."
- Blames him without self-revelation.
- D. "We rarely quarrelled, and when we did it was over nothing."
- No quarrel is revealed.
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