Information and IdeasHardMain idea about a tradition's purpose
Information and Ideas practice question
Every May the village children are sent out to 'beat the bounds' — to walk the parish boundary and strike its marker stones with sticks. The custom looks like play. It began as record-keeping: before maps, the surest way to preserve a boundary was to make sure the youngest generation had walked it and would remember where it ran.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. A custom that looks like a game began as a way of preserving knowledge of the parish boundary.Correct
- B. The children damage the marker stones.
- C. The parish boundary has never been mapped.
- D. The custom was invented recently.
Answer: A. A custom that looks like a game began as a way of preserving knowledge of the parish boundary.
Looks like play; began as record-keeping before maps.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The children damage the marker stones.
- Striking the stones marks them, not damages them, and that is not the point.
- C. The parish boundary has never been mapped.
- 'Before maps' implies maps came later.
- D. The custom was invented recently.
- It began before maps existed.
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