Information and IdeasVery hardInference about a fortress's builders
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The fortress's outer wall is built of local sandstone, roughly cut, but its gatehouse is of fine limestone from a quarry three hundred miles away, dressed with a precision found nowhere else in the region. Archaeologists infer that the gatehouse ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. was built by outside craftsmen brought in specially, at greater cost than the rest of the fortress.Correct
- B. was built before the outer wall.
- C. was made of sandstone painted to look like limestone.
- D. was never finished.
Answer: A. was built by outside craftsmen brought in specially, at greater cost than the rest of the fortress.
Distant stone, unmatched skill.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. was built before the outer wall.
- Order of building is not indicated.
- C. was made of sandstone painted to look like limestone.
- The limestone is real and quarried far away.
- D. was never finished.
- Precision suggests completion.
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