Question 1
Question detail
Which option separates cause and consequence?
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MCQ
Type
practice
Style
Topic
AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day
Question
- A. medieval medicine should be explained before judging consequences.
- B. A source comment with no provenance.
- C. A long-term cause treated as a result.
- D. A similarity presented as a difference.
Answer
Evidence check: medieval medicine should be explained before judging consequences. is the best answer. It fits Part one: Medicine stands still within AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day and directly supports Study medieval medicine, including natural and supernatural approaches, Hippocratic and Galenic methods and treatments, the medieval doctor, training and beliefs about causes. Check this by using evidence, provenance, date, event, individual, policy, consequence; do not choose a distractor simply because it sounds historical.
Explanation
The correct option is medieval medicine 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 2 Section A: Thematic studies and uses the same evidence base as Study medieval medicine, including natural and supernatural approaches, Hippocratic and Galenic methods and treatments, the medieval doctor, training and beliefs about causes. 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.
Common mistake
Avoid confusing medieval medicine
A common mistake is to write about medieval medicine as a general opinion, or to mix up cause, consequence, change and continuity in c1000 to the present day.
Anchor the answer to Part one: Medicine stands still, use precise evidence, and state whether medieval medicine is a cause, consequence, change, continuity or significant development.
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