Information and IdeasHardEvidence for a claim about a ship's cargo
Information and Ideas practice question
A maritime historian argues that a wrecked merchant ship was carrying tea, not silk as its manifest states.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The wreck's hold contained hundreds of the lead-lined wooden chests used only for tea, and no trace of the bales in which silk was shipped.Correct
- B. The ship sailed from a port that exported both tea and silk.
- C. The manifest was written in a hurried hand.
- D. Tea was more valuable than silk that year.
Answer: A. The wreck's hold contained hundreds of the lead-lined wooden chests used only for tea, and no trace of the bales in which silk was shipped.
Tea chests, no silk bales.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The ship sailed from a port that exported both tea and silk.
- Consistent with either cargo.
- C. The manifest was written in a hurried hand.
- Haste does not say what the cargo was.
- D. Tea was more valuable than silk that year.
- Value does not say what was carried.
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