Information and IdeasVery hardEvidence for a claim about a violin's maker
Information and Ideas practice question
A dealer claims that an unlabelled violin was made in the workshop of a particular eighteenth-century maker.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The violin's internal blocks are cut from the same distinctive willow, with the same tool marks, as the blocks in three labelled instruments from that workshop.Correct
- B. The violin has a beautiful tone.
- C. The violin was found in the town where the maker worked.
- D. The maker was famous in the eighteenth century.
Answer: A. The violin's internal blocks are cut from the same distinctive willow, with the same tool marks, as the blocks in three labelled instruments from that workshop.
Matching hidden construction details.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The violin has a beautiful tone.
- Tone does not identify a maker.
- C. The violin was found in the town where the maker worked.
- Location is weak; violins travel.
- D. The maker was famous in the eighteenth century.
- Fame is irrelevant.
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