Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors on the value of a method
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Historian Marc Delacroix holds that oral histories are too unreliable to use: memories fade, stories improve in the telling, and no two witnesses agree.
Text 2
Oral histories are unreliable about dates and sequences, but they preserve what documents rarely do — how events felt to those living through them. Used alongside the written record, and not as a substitute for it, they add a dimension no archive contains.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely respond to Delacroix by arguing that ____
- A. the weaknesses he identifies are real but do not cancel the distinctive value oral histories have when used with documents.Correct
- B. oral histories are more accurate than documents.
- C. memories never fade.
- D. archives should be closed to historians.
Answer: A. the weaknesses he identifies are real but do not cancel the distinctive value oral histories have when used with documents.
'Unreliable about dates … but'; 'used alongside the written record'.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. oral histories are more accurate than documents.
- Text 2 grants their unreliability on facts.
- C. memories never fade.
- Text 2 accepts that they are unreliable about dates and sequences.
- D. archives should be closed to historians.
- Text 2 values the written record.
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