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Information and Ideas practice question
A food historian claims that the region's flatbread recipe has changed little in five hundred years.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. A household manual printed in the region in the 1520s gives a flatbread recipe with the same ingredients and method used by local bakers today.Correct
- B. The region's bakers use ovens that were installed in the 1990s.
- C. Flatbreads are eaten in many parts of the world.
- D. The region's wheat harvest has doubled since 1900.
Answer: A. A household manual printed in the region in the 1520s gives a flatbread recipe with the same ingredients and method used by local bakers today.
A five-century-old recipe matching today's is direct evidence of continuity.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The region's bakers use ovens that were installed in the 1990s.
- Modern ovens say nothing about the recipe's age.
- C. Flatbreads are eaten in many parts of the world.
- Flatbread elsewhere doesn't bear on this region's recipe.
- D. The region's wheat harvest has doubled since 1900.
- Harvest size is unrelated to the recipe.
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