Information and IdeasHardEvidence for a claim about a bridge's age
Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the stone bridge is older than the 1750 date carved on its parapet.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. A map surveyed in 1720 shows a bridge at the same spot, drawn with the same three arches.Correct
- B. The bridge's parapet was repaired in 1900.
- C. The bridge has three arches.
- D. The river has changed its course since 1750.
Answer: A. A map surveyed in 1720 shows a bridge at the same spot, drawn with the same three arches.
A bridge of the same shape on a map thirty years earlier.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The bridge's parapet was repaired in 1900.
- A later repair says nothing about the original date.
- C. The bridge has three arches.
- The number of arches alone dates nothing.
- D. The river has changed its course since 1750.
- The river's course does not date the bridge.
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