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Craft and StructureHardTwo historians on lighthouse keepers

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The keepers' own logbooks record a life of methodical routine: wicks trimmed, lamps lit, weather noted. Entries run for years without incident, suggesting the isolation was, for most, orderly and calm. Text 2 Keepers wrote logbooks knowing inspectors would read them; a tidy page was part of keeping the post. Their letters home — where no inspector looked — speak of dread at storm seasons, children sick with no doctor reachable, and winters that unraveled sleep. The calm of the logs is the calm of a document written for one's employer.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?

  1. A. Text 2 argues that the sources Text 1 relies on give a misleading picture.Correct
  2. B. Text 2 confirms Text 1's account using the same official records.
  3. C. Both texts conclude that lighthouse keeping was uneventful work.
  4. D. Text 1 studies keepers' families, while Text 2 studies their employers.

Answer: A. Text 2 argues that the sources Text 1 relies on give a misleading picture.

Text 1 builds its calm picture from official logbooks; Text 2 contends those logs were sanitized for inspectors, and letters tell a harsher story — the sources mislead.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Text 2 confirms Text 1's account using the same official records.
Text 2 draws on private letters precisely because it distrusts the official records.
C. Both texts conclude that lighthouse keeping was uneventful work.
Text 2's letters describe dread and hardship, not uneventful routine.
D. Text 1 studies keepers' families, while Text 2 studies their employers.
Families appear in Text 2's sources, not Text 1's, and employers are not the focus of either.

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