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Jul-2021

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Primitive Man

Primitive man was probably more 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 present it, and whenever he went 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 the incidental purpose of preserving a flame. Lamps, too probably are developed by accident. Early man may have had the first conception of a lamp while watching a twig of fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from the 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 stones or sea-shells, have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

Which of the following statements can be derived from the text?

a) Lighting his surroundings was a major concern for the primitive man.b) Primitive man used to soften his food by heating it.c) Torch was discovered more by accident than by design.d) Preserving fire was not a major concern for the primitive man.e) Some of the primitive lamp designs survived for long through the ages.

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