Craft and StructureHardHow one author would respond to another's evidence
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Archaeologist Sofia Reyes argues that the hilltop site was a fortress, pointing to the thick stone wall that rings it.
Text 2
Thick walls kept animals in as readily as they kept enemies out. The absence of weapons, burnt layers, or bodies at the hilltop site, and the presence of animal pens and grain stores, point to a livestock enclosure rather than a stronghold.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Reyes's use of the wall as evidence?
- A. By arguing that the wall is consistent with a livestock enclosure and that other finds at the site favour that reading.Correct
- B. By denying that the wall exists.
- C. By agreeing that the wall proves the site was a fortress.
- D. By claiming that the site had no wall until modern times.
Answer: A. By arguing that the wall is consistent with a livestock enclosure and that other finds at the site favour that reading.
Walls keep animals in too; pens and grain stores, and no weapons, point to livestock.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the wall exists.
- Text 2 accepts the wall.
- C. By agreeing that the wall proves the site was a fortress.
- Text 2 rejects the fortress reading.
- D. By claiming that the site had no wall until modern times.
- Nothing about the wall's date.
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