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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The 1851 census lists the occupant of the cottage as a 'straw plaiter'. Text 2 Under the cottage's floorboards, restorers found hundreds of short lengths of split straw, several bone plaiting tools, and a child's practice plait.

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

  1. A. straw plaiting was carried on in the cottage in the mid-nineteenth century.Correct
  2. B. the cottage was a school.
  3. C. the census is unreliable.
  4. D. the floorboards were laid in 1851.

Answer: A. straw plaiting was carried on in the cottage in the mid-nineteenth century.

A plaiter in the census; plaiting waste and tools under the floor.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the cottage was a school.
A child's practice plait suggests a family, not a school.
C. the census is unreliable.
The finds confirm the census.
D. the floorboards were laid in 1851.
The floorboards' date is not given.

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