Questions –13 The correct answer is false

4 The correct answer is FALSE: 
The text refers to the date of the Long Man of Wilmington as 
‘controversial’ and says, ‘While many historians are convinced the figure is prehistoric, others 
believe that it was the work of an artistic monk from a nearby priory and was created between 
the 11th and 15th centuries.’ The fact that there are two different views among historians about 
the figure’s origins means that they have not come to an agreement.
5 The correct answer is FALSE: 
The text says, ‘The method of cutting these huge figures was 
simply to remove the overlying grass to reveal the gleaming white chalk below.’ This means that 
people did not place the chalk on the hillside: the chalk was already on the hillside, and they 
uncovered it by cutting away the grass that was growing on top.
6 The correct answer is TRUE: 
The text refers to the fact that ‘the vast majority of hill figures 
have disappeared’. This means that that most of these are not visible any more.
7 The correct answer is TRUE: 
The text says, ‘over hundreds of years the outlines would 
sometimes change due to people not always cutting in exactly the same place, thus creating a 
different shape to the original geoglyph.’ If the shapes of some geoglyphs are now different from 
their original shapes, this means that they have altered over time.
8 The correct answer is NOT GIVEN: 
The text describes the Uffington White Horse, but does 
not say whether its fame is due to its size. 
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9 The correct answer is ‘Ridgeway’: 
The text says, ‘The horse is situated 2.5 km from Uffington 
village … and below the Ridgeway, a long-distance Neolithic track.’ A track which dates from 
Neolithic times is several thousand years old: this means that the Ridgeway is an ancient road. 
The capital ‘R’ of ‘Ridgeway’ tells us that this is the name which the road is known by.