Question

he Unique Iron Age Experimental Center at Lajire,about 40km west of Copenhagenserves as a museum, a classroom and a place to get away from it all.How did peoplelive during the Iron Age?How did they support themselves/What did they eat and howdid they cultivate the land?These and myriad of other question prodded the pioneersof the Legree experiment Living in the open and working 10 hours a day,volunteersfrom all over Scandinavia led by 30 experts, built the rst in the anti cent encampmentin a matter of months.The house walls were of clay,the roofs of hay -all based onoriginal design.Then came the second stage-getting back to the basics ofliving.Families were invited to stay in the 'prehistoric village' for a week or two at atome and rough it Iron Age-style Initially, this experiment proved none too easy formodern Danes accustomed to central heating,but it convinced the central that therewas something to the Lejre project.Little by little,the modern iron Ayers learnt thattheir huts were,after all,habitable.The problems were numerous-smoke belching outfrom the rough-and-ready replaces into the rooms and so on.Theseproblems,however,have led to some discoveries:domed smoke ovens made of clay,forexamples give out more heat and consume less fuel than an open re,and whencorrectly stoked,they are practically smokeless By contacting other museums, theLegree team has been able to reconstruct ancient weaving looms and pottery kilns.Iron Age dyeing techniques,using local natural vegetation,have also been revived,ashave ancient banking and cooking methods From the passage what can be inferred to be the center's initial outlook towards the lejre project

Answer 1

The options to the question are

a) It initiated the project

b) It eagerly supported it

c) It felt the project was very unique

d) It was apprehensive about it

The answer is a) It initiated the project

Center's initial outlook towards the Lejre project

- From the passage it shows that the center initially initiated the project with a scope of studying the lifestyle of Iron Age people.

- The center was convinced that though the practical approach of the Lejre project was difficult, it will surely be beneficial in the discovery of something valuable about the Iron Age people.