Information and IdeasVery hardQuotation illustrating a subtle claim about a narrator
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the memoir's narrator presents her family's decline as a matter of luck while the details she supplies point to choices.
Which quotation from the memoir most effectively illustrates the critic's claim?
- A. "We were unlucky: the shop failed the year my father took up racing, and the house went the winter he stopped opening the post."Correct
- B. "We were unlucky: the flood took the shop and the fire took the house."
- C. "My father's choices ruined us, and I have never pretended otherwise."
- D. "We were a happy family, and the house was full of music."
Answer: A. "We were unlucky: the shop failed the year my father took up racing, and the house went the winter he stopped opening the post."
'Unlucky', and then racing and unopened post: choices, called luck.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. "We were unlucky: the flood took the shop and the fire took the house."
- Luck, with details that are genuinely luck.
- C. "My father's choices ruined us, and I have never pretended otherwise."
- The narrator names the choices; the claim is that she doesn't.
- D. "We were a happy family, and the house was full of music."
- No decline.
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