QUESTIONS 5 – 7 DO THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AGREE WITH THE INFORMATION...

6. The VOC was the world’s first major trading company.

Key words: VOC, first, major trading

As the VOC is mentioned only in paragraph 4, this paragraph would be investigated. In

this statement, the word “first” refers to the idea that there was no major trading company

before the VOC. However, there is no sentence mentioning this; the only sentence

describing the VOC is that it was the “richest commercial operation in the world”. We do

not know if it was the first trading company, only that it was rich. Therefore, we have no

information to confirm if the statement is true or false.

 trading company = commercial operation

→ Answer: NOT GIVEN