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Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the town's bell tower also served as a lookout for fires.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. The town's accounts from the period record payments to a watchman stationed in the tower 'to cry fire'.Correct
- B. The bell tower is the tallest building in the town.
- C. The tower's bell was recast in 1810.
- D. The town suffered a great fire in 1750.
Answer: A. The town's accounts from the period record payments to a watchman stationed in the tower 'to cry fire'.
A paid watchman in the tower whose job was to cry fire is direct evidence of the lookout role.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The bell tower is the tallest building in the town.
- Height makes a lookout possible, not actual.
- C. The tower's bell was recast in 1810.
- The bell's recasting says nothing about fire-watching.
- D. The town suffered a great fire in 1750.
- A fire shows a need for a lookout, not that the tower was used as one.
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