Craft and StructureVery hardOverall structure: myth then correction then significance
Craft and Structure practice question
Schoolbooks once taught that medieval people believed the earth was flat. They did not: every educated person since antiquity had known it was round, and the myth was invented in the nineteenth century to make the past look foolish. The interesting question is not what medieval people believed, but why later generations needed to believe they were fools.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It states a widely taught claim, shows it to be false, and then reframes the real question as being about those who spread the claim.Correct
- B. It argues that medieval people were ignorant.
- C. It explains how the earth's shape was discovered.
- D. It lists the errors in old schoolbooks.
Answer: A. It states a widely taught claim, shows it to be false, and then reframes the real question as being about those who spread the claim.
Claim, correction, and a turn toward why the myth was wanted.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It argues that medieval people were ignorant.
- The passage says the opposite.
- C. It explains how the earth's shape was discovered.
- Discovery is not described.
- D. It lists the errors in old schoolbooks.
- Only one schoolbook error is discussed.
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