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Craft and StructureMediumShared inference from two records

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 A 1790 lease describes the cottage's occupant as a 'basket maker'. Text 2 Under the cottage's back garden, excavators found a lined pit of the kind used to soak willow rods, together with hundreds of cut willow ends.

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

  1. A. baskets were made at the cottage around the end of the eighteenth century.Correct
  2. B. the cottage was a willow plantation.
  3. C. the lease is inaccurate.
  4. D. the garden was dug in 1790.

Answer: A. baskets were made at the cottage around the end of the eighteenth century.

A basket maker in the lease; a soaking pit and willow ends in the garden.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the cottage was a willow plantation.
A soaking pit is for working willow, not growing it.
C. the lease is inaccurate.
The finds confirm the lease.
D. the garden was dug in 1790.
The garden's date is not given.

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