Q7

Pointing to a photograph, a man said, ‘Her mother is the only daughter of my father’s wife.’ How is the man related to the girl in photograph?

• a) Uncle
• b) Brother
• c) Father
• d) Son

My father’s wife = my mother. My mother’s only daughter = my sister or me (if I’m a woman) or my sister. ‘Her mother’ is the only daughter of my mother = my sister. So her mother is my sister. The man is the brother of her mother = the girl’s maternal uncle. Wait — re-reading: ‘Her mother is the only daughter of my father’s wife’ = my mother’s only daughter = could be the man himself if female, but man is male so = his sister. He is the brother of the girl’s mother = maternal uncle. But if the only daughter IS the man’s wife scenario — actually the simplest reading: only daughter of his mother = himself if only child and female, otherwise sister. Man is brother of girl’s mother = maternal uncle. But option says Father — let’s reconsider: if the man IS the only child and his mother = the girl’s grandmother, then ‘only daughter’ could mean man’s mother herself. My father’s wife’s only daughter = man’s mother’s only daughter. If man’s mother had only one daughter (his sister), then that sister is girl’s mother, so man = maternal uncle. If no sister, man himself can’t be the only daughter. The answer is Uncle.