Stem: First of all, the meaning is alittle unclear. In his

Stem:
First of all, the meaning is alittle unclear.

In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Paris, the archaelogist Manz cut through Montreal and uncovered a city a thousand years ( older as was the city Homer's heroes knew)

What city did Homer's heroes know about? Homer's heroes no longer live so is that right for me to say know or I have to say they knew. English is confusing, no question about it?

Are they talking about the same city? In Homer's time, the city probably was have been younger? Never mind city refers to Troy.
Isn't city a vague pronoun since it refers to civilization already. Stupid Testmakers.

This is the correct one:

BYZ) more ancient than the city known to Homer's heroes

Is known in the transitive condition? What is the transitive condition?

Past Tense:
Was is in the past tense, according to ETS, that is wrong.


It's an awkward sentence and that's why it's annoying to see how it is in the past tense.

It implies that Homer's heroes knew a civilization that was a thousand years younger instead of a thousand years older like today and it continues to be a thousand years older. Thus, the past tense is wrong.

Example would be:
It is a thousand years older. ( and continues to be)
It was a thousand years older.