Information and IdeasVery hardMain idea of a passage on a curated life
Information and Ideas practice question
The biographer's task is complicated by her subject's habit of revising his own past. The diaries were rewritten in old age, the letters he kept are those that flatter him, and the memoir is contradicted by every independent source. What survives is less the record of a life than the life he wished to have led.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. The subject shaped the records of his life so thoroughly that they show what he wanted to be true rather than what was.Correct
- B. The subject kept no records of his life.
- C. The biographer has refused to write the book.
- D. The memoir is the most reliable source.
Answer: A. The subject shaped the records of his life so thoroughly that they show what he wanted to be true rather than what was.
Rewritten, selected, contradicted: a wished-for life.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The subject kept no records of his life.
- He kept many; the problem is their reliability.
- C. The biographer has refused to write the book.
- Her task is complicated, not abandoned.
- D. The memoir is the most reliable source.
- It is contradicted by every independent source.
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