Information and IdeasVery hardInference about a fortress's water supply
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The fortress's well is shallow and often dry, yet its garrison withstood a siege of eight months. Excavation found a channel cut through solid rock from the well to a spring on the far side of the hill, hidden from the besiegers. A historian would infer that the defenders ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. drew their water from the hidden spring through the channel during the siege.Correct
- B. surrendered when the well ran dry.
- C. had no water for eight months.
- D. dug the well after the siege.
Answer: A. drew their water from the hidden spring through the channel during the siege.
A hidden channel to a spring.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. surrendered when the well ran dry.
- They withstood the siege.
- C. had no water for eight months.
- Eight months without water is impossible.
- D. dug the well after the siege.
- The channel served the siege.
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