Through years of excavations and careful analysis of her finds around Krasnyi Yar in Kazakhstan, archaeologist Sandra Olsen has assembled what may be evidence of the earliest known people to have domesticated and ridden horses, a momentous development in human history. ███
Intro to Topic ·Olsen found evidence of earliest domestication of horses for riding?
Horses were buried in carefully arranged patterns which suggests a closer relationship with the Botai, consistent with the riding hypothesis.
Passage Style
Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)
Single position
9.
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Question Type
Meaning in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Read the line containing the word “beyond.” It tells us that nearly whole horse skeletons were found buried in a carefully arranged pattern with some human remains. The author believes this suggests some use for horses other than just as a source of meat. The word “beyond” means something like “more than.” Horses might not have been used just for food.
a
basically parallel to
This doesn’t make sense, because the author is trying to suggest a potential purpose that’s different from hunting as a source of meat. So the potential purpose isn’t “parallel” to hunting as a source of meat.
0%
b
more elusive than
This doesn’t make sense, because the author doesn’t suggest that the potential purpose suggested by the arrangement of horse bones is more difficult to find or understand.
4%
c
hard to grasp ██ ████████ ██
This doesn’t make sense, because the author doesn’t suggest that the potential purpose suggested by the arrangement of horse bones is more difficult to understand than the hunting purpose.
0%
d
less clearly defined ████
This doesn’t make sense, because the author doesn’t suggest that the potential purpose suggested by the arrangement of horse bones is less clear than the purpose of hunting.
1%
e
more complex than
This is the best answer. The author suggests horses might have had a purpose besides food. That purpose might be more “complex” in that it relates to something besides just the basic human need for food.
94%
Difficulty
94% of people who answer get this correct
This is a low-difficulty question.
It is somewhat easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%124
133
75%142
Analysis
Meaning in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Meaning in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Stems that ask us to interpret the meaning of a word, phrase, or idea given the context in which it appears.
An umbrella tag marking questions that test our understanding of the passage's overall structure (e.g. Main point, Purpose of paragraph, Meaning in context, Describe organization).
Passages that focus on describing or evaluating potential explanations for a given phenomenon. Causal reasoning features prominently in these passages.
