Read the passage below carefully and answer the question that follows.Primitive ...

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Read the passage below carefully and answer the question that follows.

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 is sent on a journey, he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand, from which the touch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to fie primary purpose of preserving a flame.

Lamps, too, probably developed by the incident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from a roasting carcass. Al! 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 sea Shells, have persisted in an identical form up to quite recent times.

Primitive man preserved fire because

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B)

his methods of making fire was laborious