Question 2

```Primitive man was probably ore concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire. he had to preserve it and whenever he is sent on a journey, he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may well have developed. could be used for illumination was probably incidental to tie primary purpose of preserving a flame.
Lamps, too, probably developed by incident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps, which were made of hollowed sea shells, have persisted in identical form up to recent times.```
One way early man made a lamp was by putting in lighted reed in a

  • A.hollowed stone
  • B.sea-shell
  • C.vessel
  • D.molten salt
Objective

Question details

Exam body
ABU
Subject
English Language
Year
2010/2011
Question no.
#2
Type
Objective

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