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Information and Ideas practice question

The museum moved its most popular painting from the entrance hall to a small room at the far end of the building. Visitor numbers in the previously quiet galleries along the way rose sharply. This suggests that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. the museum placed the painting where visitors would have to walk past other exhibits to reach it.Correct
  2. B. the painting had become less popular.
  3. C. the entrance hall was closed for repairs.
  4. D. visitors no longer came to see the painting.

Answer: A. the museum placed the painting where visitors would have to walk past other exhibits to reach it.

Quiet galleries got busy once they lay on the route.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the painting had become less popular.
Its popularity is what drew people through the galleries.
C. the entrance hall was closed for repairs.
Not mentioned.
D. visitors no longer came to see the painting.
They came; they just walked further.

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