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Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the castle was built mainly for show rather than for defence.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. The castle's walls are thin, its windows large and set low, and it stands where no road, river or border needed guarding.Correct
- B. The castle is surrounded by a wide moat.
- C. The castle was completed in 1450.
- D. The castle's first owner was a wealthy wool merchant.
Answer: A. The castle's walls are thin, its windows large and set low, and it stands where no road, river or border needed guarding.
Thin walls, big low windows and a strategically useless site all point away from defence and toward display.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The castle is surrounded by a wide moat.
- A moat is a defensive feature, which works against the claim.
- C. The castle was completed in 1450.
- A date says nothing about purpose.
- D. The castle's first owner was a wealthy wool merchant.
- A wealthy owner could have built for either purpose.
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