Critical Reading > Sentence Completions
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The professor asked the students to make sure they read the entire novel, both the twelve regular chapters and the extensive ------- materials that the author included at the beginning of the book.
(A) proleptic
(B) redacted
(C) prefatory
(D) orthographic
(E) conjunctive
The Correct answer is C.
Explanation
Choice (C) is correct. It is customary to refer to materials appearing at the beginning of a book (title page, author’s note, introduction, and so forth) as “prefatory,” or the preface, located in the front.