Craft and StructureVery hardOverall structure: expectation, disappointment, reassessment
Craft and Structure practice question
The excavation had been planned around a single find: the mosaic that a 1930s survey had recorded and then lost. Eight weeks of digging found no mosaic. What it found instead was the kiln that had made the tiles, and with it the first evidence that the villa had produced its own decorations rather than importing them — a discovery of more consequence than the floor it replaced.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It describes a goal, reports that it was not achieved, and then presents an unplanned discovery as more valuable.Correct
- B. It argues that the 1930s survey was fraudulent.
- C. It lists the finds from the excavation.
- D. It explains how mosaics are made.
Answer: A. It describes a goal, reports that it was not achieved, and then presents an unplanned discovery as more valuable.
Goal, failure, and a better find.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It argues that the 1930s survey was fraudulent.
- The survey is not challenged.
- C. It lists the finds from the excavation.
- One find, not a list.
- D. It explains how mosaics are made.
- Manufacture is not explained.
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