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Craft and StructureMediumShared inference from two records

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 A 1680 probate inventory of the farmhouse lists 'a loom and two spinning wheels in the chamber over the kitchen'. Text 2 Restorers found the floorboards of the room over the kitchen worn in a rectangle the size of a loom's frame, with hundreds of pins and broken bobbins in the gaps between the boards.

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

  1. A. cloth was woven in the room over the kitchen in the seventeenth century.Correct
  2. B. the farmhouse was a wool merchant's shop.
  3. C. the inventory is unreliable.
  4. D. the floorboards were replaced in 1680.

Answer: A. cloth was woven in the room over the kitchen in the seventeenth century.

A loom in the 1680 inventory; loom wear, pins, and bobbins in the same room.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the farmhouse was a wool merchant's shop.
A loom and wheels indicate making cloth, not selling it.
C. the inventory is unreliable.
The finds confirm the inventory.
D. the floorboards were replaced in 1680.
The boards' date is not given.

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