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? Check all that apply. -A flat field could easily be used for farming. -Today, many people like thatched cottages. -Elizabethans preferred large houses. -The English were very hospitable people. -Hills and mountains made travel difficult. -Elizabethans did not like to travel.

Answer 1

-A flat field could easily be used for farming.
-Today, many people like thatched cottages.
-Hills and mountains made travel difficult. 

These three statements are directly said in the passage, while the other options might just be implied through inference. 

Answer 2

Answer: A) A flat field could easily be used for farming and E) Hills and mountains made travel difficult.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England" we can see that the ideas that are stated explicitly are that A flat field could easily be used for farming as we can see in the phrase "A wide flat field is "finer” than rugged terrain for it can be tilled easily to produce wheat and so represents good white bread" and that hills and mountains made travel difficult, as we can see in the sentence " Ranges of hills and mountains are obstacles to Elizabethan travelers."