Craft and StructureHardTwo views on a stone circle's purpose
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The stone circle was an observatory: its tallest stone lines up exactly with the midwinter sunrise.
Text 2
A circle of fourteen stones offers many lines to choose from, and one of them will align with almost any sunrise or moonrise you care to name. The midwinter line proves nothing unless the builders can be shown to have chosen it.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1's evidence?
- A. By arguing that with so many stones, some alignment with a sunrise is inevitable and does not show intent.Correct
- B. By denying that the tallest stone lines up with the midwinter sunrise.
- C. By agreeing that the circle was an observatory.
- D. By claiming the circle has only two stones.
Answer: A. By arguing that with so many stones, some alignment with a sunrise is inevitable and does not show intent.
Fourteen stones, many chance alignments.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the tallest stone lines up with the midwinter sunrise.
- The alignment itself is not denied.
- C. By agreeing that the circle was an observatory.
- Text 2 doubts the conclusion.
- D. By claiming the circle has only two stones.
- Text 2 says fourteen.
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