RC Drill Set 2, Question 6
Studying West African symbol systems may clarify some(460 more words not shown)
Based on the information in(14 more words not shown)
- AIn developing a(13 more words not shown)
- BHistorians have found(15 more words not shown)
- CHistorians have identified(17 more words not shown)
- DThe 80-character writing(14 more words not shown)
- EScholars have not(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The discussion offers possible explanations for Egyptian origins, and we need to preserve that uncertainty. A proposal that something could have happened isn't a report that historians have established it. We'll check each choice against what is known, rather than turn the hypotheses into facts.
Working the answers
- A
No inspiration from Egyptian hieroglyphics is attributed to Njoya.
- B
An Egyptian inventor “may have been stimulated” by Mesopotamian writing. That doesn't report discovered evidence that Egyptian writing was partly derived from it; stimulation and borrowed material aren't the same thing either.
- C
The shared belief suggests some historical connection, but no particular communication channel is identified.
- D
Reducing 466 symbols to 80 doesn't establish that every original symbol was discarded. Some could have remained.
- ECorrect
The text describes Egyptian writing's “complex structure” even “in its earliest recorded form.” That supports the absence of discovered simple early examples. It doesn't prove that simpler forms never existed; the claim concerns what scholars have found.
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