Information and IdeasHardCentral idea of a literary text
Information and Ideas practice question
The following text is from a novel.
When the flood came, Nell saved the photographs and let the furniture go. Afterwards, drying them one by one on the kitchen table, she found that half of them were of people she could no longer name, and she kept those too, because someone had once thought them worth keeping.
Which choice best states the central idea of the text?
- A. Nell values the photographs for their history of having been kept, even when she no longer knows who is in them.Correct
- B. Nell regrets saving the photographs.
- C. Nell recognises everyone in the photographs.
- D. The furniture was more valuable than the photographs.
Answer: A. Nell values the photographs for their history of having been kept, even when she no longer knows who is in them.
Kept because someone once kept them.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Nell regrets saving the photographs.
- Not suggested.
- C. Nell recognises everyone in the photographs.
- Half are strangers.
- D. The furniture was more valuable than the photographs.
- She chose the photographs.
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