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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?

  1. A. Which family owned each piece of land.Correct
  2. B. Whether the land was pasture or arable.
  3. C. The height of the land above sea level.
  4. 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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