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 ____
- A. baskets were made at the cottage around the end of the eighteenth century.Correct
- B. the cottage was a willow plantation.
- C. the lease is inaccurate.
- 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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