Information and IdeasHardCentral idea of a literary text
Information and Ideas practice question
The following text is from a novel.
Every year Tomas repainted the boat the same blue, from the same tin, mixed to the same recipe by the same chandler, so that when the chandler died and the recipe with him, the blue that came next, though nobody else could tell the difference, was to Tomas the first sign that the boat had begun to belong to a different life.
Which choice best states the central idea of the text?
- A. A change imperceptible to others marks, for Tomas, the end of a continuity he had carefully preserved.Correct
- B. Tomas has stopped painting the boat.
- C. The new blue is a better colour.
- D. Tomas has sold the boat.
Answer: A. A change imperceptible to others marks, for Tomas, the end of a continuity he had carefully preserved.
Same blue for years; a new blue that only he can see.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Tomas has stopped painting the boat.
- He paints it with the new blue.
- C. The new blue is a better colour.
- Not suggested.
- D. Tomas has sold the boat.
- Not stated.
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