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Craft and StructureVery hardOverall structure: an assumption, the evidence, and a reversal

Craft and Structure practice question

The great barn was assumed to belong to the manor, since it stands in the manor's field. The abbey's rent rolls say otherwise: the barn was the abbey's, built to hold the tithe grain, and the manor rented the field around it. When the abbey fell, the barn went to the crown and was sold; the manor bought it a century later. The manor did not build the barn. It bought the thing it had always been assumed to own.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

  1. A. It states an assumption based on location, presents documentary evidence that contradicts it, and traces how the assumption came to seem true.Correct
  2. B. It argues that the barn should be returned to the abbey.
  3. C. It describes how tithe barns were built.
  4. D. It lists the manor's fields.

Answer: A. It states an assumption based on location, presents documentary evidence that contradicts it, and traces how the assumption came to seem true.

Assumed the manor's; the abbey's; bought later.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It argues that the barn should be returned to the abbey.
Not argued.
C. It describes how tithe barns were built.
Not described.
D. It lists the manor's fields.
No list.

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