Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England . Describing a landscape is thus a matter of perspective: your priorities affect what you see. Asked to describe their county, most Devonians will mention the great city of Exeter, the ports of Dartmouth, Plymouth, and Barnstaple, and the dozens of market towns. They will generally neglect to mention that the region is dominated by a great moor, Dartmoor, two thousand feet high in places and over two hundred square miles in expanse. There are no roads across this wasteland, only track ways. Elizabethans see it as good for nothing but pasture, tin mining, and the steady water supply it provides by way of the rivers that rise there. Which detail gives explicit information about Elizabethans’ perception of the moor?
Answer
A
Describing a landscape is thus a matter of perspective: your priorities affect what you see.
B
Asked to describe their county, most Devonians will mention the great city of Exeter . . .
C
There are no roads across this wasteland, only track ways.
D
Elizabethans see it as good for nothing but pasture, tin mining, and the steady water supply it provides . . .
Explanation
The question asks for an explicit statement about how Elizabethans perceived Dartmoor. The excerpt directly says they saw it as useful only for pasture, tin mining, and providing water through its rivers. Therefore, choice D gives their perception; choice C describes the moor’s roads, not what Elizabethans thought of it.
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