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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The 1841 census lists the cottage's occupant as a 'wheelwright'. Text 2 Excavation of the cottage's yard turned up iron tyre fragments, a hub-boring tool, and a pit of the kind used to shrink iron tyres onto wooden wheels.

Based on the texts, the authors would most likely agree that ____

  1. A. wheels were made at the cottage in the nineteenth century.Correct
  2. B. the cottage was a blacksmith's forge.
  3. C. the census record is wrong.
  4. D. the cottage was built in 1841.

Answer: A. wheels were made at the cottage in the nineteenth century.

A wheelwright in the census; wheelwright's tools and a tyring pit in the yard.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the cottage was a blacksmith's forge.
The tools are specific to wheels, not general smithing.
C. the census record is wrong.
The finds support the census.
D. the cottage was built in 1841.
1841 is the census date, not the build date.

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