Question

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.

A wide flat field is "finer" than rugged terrain for it can be tilled easily to produce wheat and so represents good white bread. A small thatched cottage, which a modern viewer might consider pretty, will be considered unattractive by an Elizabethan traveler, for cottagers are generally poor and able to offer little in the way of hospitality. Ranges of hills and mountains are obstacles to Elizabethan travelers and very far from picturesque features you go out of your way to see.

Which ideas are stated explicitly in the excerpt?

A. A flat field could easily be used for farming.
B. Today, many people like thatched cottages.
C. Elizabethans preferred large houses.
D. The English were very hospitable people.
E. ills and mountains made travel difficult.
F. Elizabethans did not like to travel.

Answer 1

A and E.

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England" is a masterwork penned by Ian Mortimer. Ian Mortimer is a historian who has written many historical novels. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England is one of them. The writer has used diary entries, letters, and other works of the day to write this book.

There are two ideas that the writer has picturized in the given passage. One is that a flat field was an easy land for farming and agricultural purposes and second, hills and mountains were a difficult track of traveling for travelers. For people today, hills and mountain climbing is a form of adventure whereas, in those days, it was considered an obstacle.

So, the correct options are A and E.