Which option separates cause and consequence?

Evidence check: Provisional Government should be explained before judging consequences. is the best answer. It fits Part two: Lenin's new society within AC Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism and directly supports Study the Provisional Government, including failures over social, economic and military problems, Lenin, Trotsky, Bolshevik organisation and the October/November Revolution. Check this by using evidence, provenance, date, event, individual, policy, consequence; do not choose a distractor simply because it sounds historical.

The correct option is Provisional Government should be explained before. This MCQ is about Which option separates cause and consequence, not just general recall. The correct option works because it matches the period context of Paper 1 Section A: Period studies and uses the same evidence base as Study the Provisional Government, including failures over social, economic and military problems, Lenin, Trotsky, Bolshevik organisation and the October/November Revolution. The rejected options are weaker: 1) A source comment with no provenance.; 2) A long-term cause treated as a result.; 3) A similarity presented as a difference.. To decide between them, students should identify, support, test, reject the option against chronology, evidence and the learning objective, then keep evidence separate from opinion and interpretation.