Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors on the meaning of a record
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The 1300 survey listing the manor's tenants by name shows a stable peasant community, argues historian Roz Fane, since the same surnames appear in the 1250 survey.
Text 2
The surnames recur, but in 1250 they were the names of holdings, not of people: a tenant took the name of the land he held. A man called Brook in 1300 held the Brook land; whether his grandfather did is a separate question, and the surveys cannot answer it.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Fane's argument?
- A. By arguing that the recurring surnames identify land rather than families, so they cannot show continuity of the people.Correct
- B. By denying that the surveys exist.
- C. By agreeing that the community was stable.
- D. By claiming the surnames were invented in 1300.
Answer: A. By arguing that the recurring surnames identify land rather than families, so they cannot show continuity of the people.
Names of holdings, not of people.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the surveys exist.
- Not disputed.
- C. By agreeing that the community was stable.
- Text 2 says the surveys cannot show it.
- D. By claiming the surnames were invented in 1300.
- Not claimed.
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