Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors on the interpretation of a record
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The court rolls show the manor's tenants as quarrelsome, argues historian Fay Orr: hardly a session passes without a case of trespass, assault, or slander between neighbours.
Text 2
The rolls record what came to court, and only that. A community that settled its disputes at the church door would leave no trace; one that used the court left a full one. The rolls may show not a quarrelsome manor but a litigious one, whose tenants trusted the court enough to use it.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Orr's reading?
- A. By arguing that the volume of cases may reflect the tenants' willingness to use the court rather than their tendency to quarrel.Correct
- B. By denying that the rolls record disputes.
- C. By agreeing that the tenants were unusually quarrelsome.
- D. By arguing that the rolls are incomplete forgeries.
Answer: A. By arguing that the volume of cases may reflect the tenants' willingness to use the court rather than their tendency to quarrel.
Litigious, not quarrelsome: the record shows court use, not conflict.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the rolls record disputes.
- Text 2 accepts the record.
- C. By agreeing that the tenants were unusually quarrelsome.
- The reverse.
- D. By arguing that the rolls are incomplete forgeries.
- Not suggested.
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