Information and IdeasHardInference from evidence of a process without its equipment
Information and Ideas practice question
Analysis shows that pottery found at the settlement was fired at temperatures that can be reached only in a kiln. Yet no trace of a kiln has been found anywhere within the settlement. The most likely explanation is that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the pottery was fired somewhere else and brought to the settlement.Correct
- B. the pottery was never actually fired.
- C. the settlement had no pottery of its own.
- D. kilns cannot reach the temperatures the analysis found.
Answer: A. the pottery was fired somewhere else and brought to the settlement.
The pots needed a kiln; there was no kiln at the site; so the firing happened elsewhere.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the pottery was never actually fired.
- The analysis shows the pottery WAS fired, at high temperature.
- C. the settlement had no pottery of its own.
- Pottery was found at the settlement.
- D. kilns cannot reach the temperatures the analysis found.
- The text says such temperatures can be reached ONLY in a kiln.
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