Information and IdeasVery hardInference from an author's choice of detail
Information and Ideas practice question
In the biography, the chapter on the composer's most productive decade is the shortest in the book, and the chapter on the two silent years that followed is the longest. The author is not short of material on the music; she quotes the scores at length elsewhere. ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. The author seems to regard the silence, rather than the music, as the key to understanding the composer.Correct
- B. The author dislikes the composer's music.
- C. The composer wrote nothing in the productive decade.
- D. The biography omits the silent years.
Answer: A. The author seems to regard the silence, rather than the music, as the key to understanding the composer.
Long on the silence, short on the music, by choice: where she thinks the meaning lies.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The author dislikes the composer's music.
- She quotes the scores at length.
- C. The composer wrote nothing in the productive decade.
- It was the most productive decade.
- D. The biography omits the silent years.
- The silent years have the longest chapter.
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