by James Joyce
The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which I found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.
"Araby" by James Joyce
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Use the passage from “Araby” by James Joyce to answer the question.
Which detail does the author leave uncertain in this excerpt?
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why loose papers and books were found behind the kitchen
why loose papers and books were found behind the kitchen
why the garden behind the house was wild and untended
why the garden behind the house was wild and untended
why the former tenant left his furniture to his sister
why the former tenant left his furniture to his sister
why the former tenant left his bicycle pump in the garden
why the former tenant left his bicycle pump in the garden
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The detail that the author leaves uncertain in this excerpt is:
why the former tenant left his bicycle pump in the garden.
This detail is not explained or clarified in the text, whereas the other options have reasonable inferences or contexts provided that are more clear.
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