Questions 1-10

29  nO: The writer says that ‘They [= the hunter-
gatherer groups living at Poverty Point] may have 
looked to elders [= older members] for guidance, 
but these [= the elders] would not have exerted a  
commanding influence [= not had great power] over 
their small groups.’ 
30  nOT giVEn: We are only told that ‘Archaeologists 
have been excavating Poverty Point for more than 
a century.’ This doesn’t contain any information 
about whether their excavations included Mound A 
or not. The sentence ‘However, the truly remarkable 
nature of Mound A only emerged a few years 
ago’ refers to Tristram Kidder’s discovery of the 
coloured earth inside the mound. Perhaps other 
archaeologists had done other kinds of excavation 
work on this mound – but from the information the 
writer provides, we can’t be sure.