Multiple choice

The lady wrote a huffy letter because

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. her story was rejected

  2. her story was rejected unread

  3. her story was rejected although it was good

  4. Lorimer was biased in his decision

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Explanation

Her letter to Lorimer states this when she accuses him of rejecting it without reading it, since she had pasted together some pages of the manuscript and the manuscript had gone back with the pages still pasted.