Information and IdeasHardDetail: what the map's colours show
Information and Ideas practice question
The 1890 map of the parish is coloured by hand. Historians once read the colours as showing land use: green for pasture, yellow for arable. A note found in the surveyor's papers shows otherwise. The colours mark ownership, each shade a different family, and the parish, it turns out, was almost entirely in four hands.
According to the text, what do the colours on the map represent?
- A. Which family owned each piece of land.Correct
- B. Whether the land was pasture or arable.
- C. The height of the land above sea level.
- D. The year each field was enclosed.
Answer: A. Which family owned each piece of land.
The surveyor's note: ownership.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Whether the land was pasture or arable.
- That was the historians' mistaken reading.
- C. The height of the land above sea level.
- Not mentioned.
- D. The year each field was enclosed.
- Not mentioned.
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