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In the original question (OG2022- Wiley efficient learning application), the correct choice (official answer) is D with a significant difference that made it difficult for me to choose the correct option. Option D is stated as " which has a single set of strings that RUNS parallel to the front edge of the instrument, the harpischord has several sets of strings". Is it a typo??

You're onto something here. Every other GMAC publication containing this problem has "run" in choice D.

Perhaps surprisingly, though, the difference doesn't affect the integrity of the problem—Choice D is still a perfectly workable version of the sentence.

If you don't understand why, just picture the inside of the virginal. Somewhere in there, you'll find a bunch of strings that are all parallel to one of the outer (probably wooden) edges of the whole thing—and therefore also parallel to one another.
The following descriptions are, therefore, indistinguishable:
• The strings run parallel to one edge of the instrument.
• The whole set of strings runs parallel to one edge of the instrument.
Both of these describe exactly the same situation, because an entire set of parallel lines runs in the same direction as each of the individual lines.
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