Information and IdeasEasy–MediumQuotation supporting a claim about a character's habit
Information and Ideas practice question
In a novel, a character is described as someone who cannot pass a bookshop without going in.
Which quotation from the novel most effectively illustrates the claim?
- A. "She was late again, and again the excuse was a shop with books in the window, in which she had somehow spent forty minutes."Correct
- B. "She walked past the bookshop without a glance, being late."
- C. "She preferred the library, where the books were free."
- D. "She read in bed until the candle guttered."
Answer: A. "She was late again, and again the excuse was a shop with books in the window, in which she had somehow spent forty minutes."
Late again, forty minutes among books.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. "She walked past the bookshop without a glance, being late."
- The opposite.
- C. "She preferred the library, where the books were free."
- Libraries, not shops.
- D. "She read in bed until the candle guttered."
- Reading, not shops.
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