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Information and Ideas practice question
A librarian claims that the handwritten recipe book was compiled in the 1790s.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the librarian's claim?
- A. The book's paper carries a watermark used by one mill only between 1788 and 1796, and a recipe refers to 'the new sugar tax of 1791'.Correct
- B. The book is bound in leather.
- C. The recipes use imperial measures.
- D. The book has forty pages.
Answer: A. The book's paper carries a watermark used by one mill only between 1788 and 1796, and a recipe refers to 'the new sugar tax of 1791'.
A dated watermark and a reference to a 1791 tax bracket the date.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The book is bound in leather.
- Leather binding spans centuries.
- C. The recipes use imperial measures.
- Imperial measures span centuries.
- D. The book has forty pages.
- Page count is irrelevant.
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