Quipus: The Incan Knotted Records - (Reading > Information)

Decide which paragraph, (A) to (D), has the information given in each statement below. Select (E) if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.

1...... - The cords were fashioned from both botanical and animal-derived fibers. 2...... - New academic findings question whether quipus were purely arithmetic devices. 3...... - Quipucamayocs underwent years of formal schooling to master their craft. 4...... - The knot-based counting approach resembles a widely used modern numeral system. 5...... - Cord interpreters held power because they oversaw crucial governmental data. 6...... - Certain Indigenous communities in the Andes still employ knotted strings today. 7...... - The Inca administered millions of subjects without a formal written language. 8...... - The most sizeable surviving example comprises more than fifteen hundred strands. 9...... - Occupying authorities deliberately eradicated the majority of these knotted records.