Craft and StructureEasy–MediumDisagreement about a date
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The chapel's carved doorway must date from the 1100s, historian Paul Sorel argues, because its style matches doorways of that century elsewhere in the region.
Text 2
Style alone is a weak guide: masons copied older doorways for centuries. The mortar behind this doorway contains brick dust from a kiln that did not operate until the 1400s.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Sorel about ____
- A. when the doorway was made.Correct
- B. whether the doorway is carved.
- C. whether masons existed in the 1100s.
- D. whether the chapel has a doorway.
Answer: A. when the doorway was made.
Sorel says 1100s from style; Text 2 says 1400s or later from the mortar.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether the doorway is carved.
- Both accept it is carved.
- C. whether masons existed in the 1100s.
- Not disputed.
- D. whether the chapel has a doorway.
- Not disputed.
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