Craft and StructureEasy–MediumDisagreement about an interpretation
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The rows of small pits found beside the Bronze Age houses were storage holes for grain, archaeologist Dana Reyes concludes.
Text 2
The pits contain no trace of grain, but each holds the decayed base of a wooden post. They are more plausibly the footings of fences or racks than stores.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Reyes about ____
- A. what the pits were used for.Correct
- B. whether the pits exist.
- C. whether the houses are Bronze Age.
- D. whether the pits are next to the houses.
Answer: A. what the pits were used for.
Reyes says grain stores; Text 2 says post footings.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether the pits exist.
- Both texts take the pits as real.
- C. whether the houses are Bronze Age.
- Text 2 does not dispute the date.
- D. whether the pits are next to the houses.
- Text 2 does not dispute the location.
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