Question
The following text is from Booth Tarkington’s 1921 novel Alice Adams.
Mrs. Adams had always been fond of vases, she said, and every year her husband’s Christmas present to her was a vase of one sort or another—whatever the clerk showed him, marked at about twelve or fourteen dollars.
As used in the text, what does the word “marked” most nearly mean?
Choose 1 answer:
Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A) Stained
A
Stained
(Choice B) Staged
B
Staged
(Choice C) Watched
C
Watched
(Choice D) Priced
D
Priced
Mrs. Adams had always been fond of vases, she said, and every year her husband’s Christmas present to her was a vase of one sort or another—whatever the clerk showed him, marked at about twelve or fourteen dollars.
As used in the text, what does the word “marked” most nearly mean?
Choose 1 answer:
Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A) Stained
A
Stained
(Choice B) Staged
B
Staged
(Choice C) Watched
C
Watched
(Choice D) Priced
D
Priced
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The word "marked" in the context of the text most nearly means "Priced." Therefore, the correct answer is:
(Choice D) Priced
(Choice D) Priced