Directions (41 - 45): Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it: 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 preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a fire-brand with him. His discovery that the fire-brand, from which the torch may very well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary prupose of preserving a flame. Lamps, too, probably developed by accident Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twing or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from a 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.
Primitive man used the fire-brand toA) keep away the wild animals
B) lessen the labour
C) provide light
D) prevent accidents
Correct Answer: C
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