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Information and Ideas practice question
The pamphlet, printed in 1790, explains how to cultivate potatoes in small garden plots and assumes that its reader owns no land beyond that plot and cannot afford to buy seed each year. From these assumptions it is reasonable to infer that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the pamphlet was written for poor households rather than for landowners or commercial farmers.Correct
- B. potatoes were unknown in 1790.
- C. the pamphlet's readers owned large farms.
- D. the author had never grown potatoes.
Answer: A. the pamphlet was written for poor households rather than for landowners or commercial farmers.
No land beyond a plot, no money for seed: a poor reader.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. potatoes were unknown in 1790.
- It gives instructions for growing them.
- C. the pamphlet's readers owned large farms.
- The reverse of the assumptions.
- D. the author had never grown potatoes.
- Nothing suggests this.
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