QUESTION TEXT: A purse containing 32 ancient gold coins…
QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported
FACTS:
- A purse of Moroccan coins was found far away, in Jordan.
- The ancient Jordanian city was on a trade route.
- The city was also on a pilgrimage route.
- If the purse had belonged to a trader, it would have held more than just Moroccan coins.
ANALYSIS: There were two likely types of travelers through the city: pilgrims and traders. The final sentence shows the purse probably didn’t belong to a trader. Therefore, it probably belonged to a pilgrim.
Since this is a “most strongly supported” question, our inference doesn’t have to be 100% certain.
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- We’re not told which coins were valuable.
- We only know about the coins in one purse. We have no idea how many coins in the entire city were from Morocco.
- CORRECT. This seems likely. Only traders or pilgrims would likely have carried coins all the way from Morocco to Jordan. But we’re told the purse probably didn’t belong to a trader.
- We’re not told anything about what was used for money in the city. Maybe sheep and copper coins were used too.
- Who knows? Pilgrims might not have traded coins with traders, but there are other ways of interacting.
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