Chapter 1.C, Problem 84E

To determine

In reviewing for an exam in your literature survey course, you notice the following facts about the writers that you studied:

• Some of the novelists are also poets

• None of the novelists are playwrights

• All of the novelists were born in the 20^th century

• All of the writers born in the 19^th century are playwrights.

a) Organize these facts in a Venn diagram.

b) Could you have studied a novelist born in the 19^th century?

c) Could you have studied a poet born in the 19^th century?

d) Could you have studied a writer born in the 20^th century who was both a playwright and a poet?