Multiple choice

Lorimer read the stories

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the given questions.

During his early days as editor of the popular magazine, Saturday Evening Post. George Lorimer did much of the reading of unsolicited stories. This meant endless hours of sitting at the desk, pouring over big stacks of manuscripts, trying to decide which were worthy of publication and which were not. Lorimer became an expert at making these decisions.

One day he received a huffy letter from a would-be writer who had a complaint. “Last week you rejected my story,” she wrote, “I am positive you did not read it, because, as a test, I pasted together pages 14, 15 and 16. The manuscript came back with the pages still pasted. There is no question in my mind but that you are a sham and a disgrace to your profession.”

Lorimer’s reply was succinct: “Madam, at breakfast when I crack open an egg, I don’t have to eat the whole egg to know it is bad.”

  1. because he enjoyed reading -them

  2. in order to publish them

  3. only to find fault with them

  4. in order to review them
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The second sentence of the passage states this when we are told of Lorimer's routine as an editor of a popular magazine. He read the unsolicited stories... trying to decide which were worthy for publication and which were not. Thus he reviewed the stories to decide if they were worthy for publication.

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