Question 1: What is an implied idea in the “The Bell Rock”?

A. The early history of Bell Rock is mostly known through poetry.

B. The Bell Rock lighthouse was more important as literary inspiration than as a functioning lighthouse.

C. The location of Bell Rock made construction of the lighthouse challenging and risky.

D. The Bell Rock lighthouse is most famous because of the person who built it.

Question 2 : Which two sentences from the text that best support the answer in Question 1? (CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS)

A. "Despite the rigors of the task, only two lives were lost during construction."

B. “The author R. M. Ballantyne . . . stayed in the lighthouse for three weeks to gather background material for his story 'The Lighthouse,' which he set on the Bell Rock.”

C. "Robert Stevenson went on to design many other lighthouses around the Scottish coast, and all three of his sons who survived infancy became lighthouse engineers, as did several of his grandsons."

D. "The lighthouse took almost four years to complete, primarily as work was restricted to the summer months; winter weather precluded any building on, and often travel to, the Rock."