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Read these lines from a newspaper notice: "There is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of four pounds a week for purely nominal services. All red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age of twenty-one years, are eligible." According to the quoted lines, who may apply?
AAny man who can prove that he needs the money
BAny member already serving inside the League
CAny red-headed man over twenty-one and in health
DAny person who applies before eleven o'clock
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Any red-headed man over twenty-one and in health
1. The notice lists three conditions: red hair, soundness of body and mind, and an age above twenty-one.
2. Anyone meeting all three is called eligible.
3. Need for money is never mentioned as a condition, so the first choice adds a rule that is not there.
4. So the answer is any red-headed man over twenty-one and in good health, option C.
_Source: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Red-Headed League_
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