Information and IdeasEasy–MediumQuotation supporting a claim about a setting
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic claims that the novel presents the mill as a place that is dying.
Which quotation from the novel most effectively illustrates the claim?
- A. "Of the forty looms, six still ran, and the men who ran them were the six who had nowhere else to go."Correct
- B. "The mill was taking on hands every week, and the looms ran through the night."
- C. "The mill stood by the river, as it had for a century."
- D. "The mill's whistle could be heard in the next valley."
Answer: A. "Of the forty looms, six still ran, and the men who ran them were the six who had nowhere else to go."
Six of forty, run by men with no alternative.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. "The mill was taking on hands every week, and the looms ran through the night."
- A thriving mill.
- C. "The mill stood by the river, as it had for a century."
- Location and age only.
- D. "The mill's whistle could be heard in the next valley."
- No sign of decline.
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