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Information and Ideas practice question
A scholar claims that the two manuscripts were copied by the same scribe.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the scholar's claim?
- A. Both manuscripts share the same unusual way of forming the letter 'g', the same spelling errors in the same words, and the same ruling pattern on the page.Correct
- B. Both manuscripts are written in Latin.
- C. Both manuscripts are on parchment.
- D. Both manuscripts survive in the same library.
Answer: A. Both manuscripts share the same unusual way of forming the letter 'g', the same spelling errors in the same words, and the same ruling pattern on the page.
Shared idiosyncrasies of hand, spelling, and layout point to one scribe.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Both manuscripts are written in Latin.
- Latin was universal.
- C. Both manuscripts are on parchment.
- Parchment was universal.
- D. Both manuscripts survive in the same library.
- Where they are kept now says nothing about who wrote them.
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