Information and IdeasVery hardEvidence that a well postdates a siege
Information and Ideas practice question
A historian argues that a castle's well was dug after the siege of 1215, not before it as the chronicle states.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The well's shaft cuts through a layer of burnt debris that contains coins minted no earlier than 1215 and matches the fire the chronicle describes at the siege.Correct
- B. The chronicle was written fifty years after the siege.
- C. The well is thirty metres deep.
- D. Other castles of the period had wells.
Answer: A. The well's shaft cuts through a layer of burnt debris that contains coins minted no earlier than 1215 and matches the fire the chronicle describes at the siege.
The well cuts through what the siege left behind.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The chronicle was written fifty years after the siege.
- Distance in time weakens the chronicle without dating the well.
- C. The well is thirty metres deep.
- Depth does not date the well.
- D. Other castles of the period had wells.
- Other castles say nothing about this one.
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