Information and IdeasMediumFinding supporting a claim about an object's origin
Information and Ideas practice question
A curator claims that a carved wooden chest in the museum was made in the town's own workshop rather than imported.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the curator's claim?
- A. The chest's timber is from a local oak species, and its carved motifs match a pattern book that survives from the town's workshop.Correct
- B. The chest is very old.
- C. The town once had a workshop.
- D. Chests like it were made in several countries.
Answer: A. The chest's timber is from a local oak species, and its carved motifs match a pattern book that survives from the town's workshop.
Local timber, the workshop's own patterns.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The chest is very old.
- Age doesn't show origin.
- C. The town once had a workshop.
- The premise.
- D. Chests like it were made in several countries.
- Weakens, if anything.
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