PrepTest 104, Section 2, Question 13
By the mid-fourteenth century, professional associations of canon(451 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that which(14 more words not shown)
- AFew guilds of(7 more words not shown)
- BMany medieval guilds(8 more words not shown)
- CMost medieval guilds(12 more words not shown)
- DMedieval guilds found(8 more words not shown)
- EThe ethical standards(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks about medieval guilds generally, not just the canon-lawyer associations. Most of our attention has been on the lawyers, so there isn't much about other guilds to predict. We need to find what was actually said about that broader group.
Working the answers
- A
The opening gives a date by which canon-lawyer associations had spread. It doesn't say few important guilds existed before then.
- BCorrect
The useful evidence is a short clause in paragraph 1: associations might be expected to enforce standards, “as other guilds often did.” Those other guilds did influence members by enforcing standards of conduct. The lawyers' associations are the contrast, not evidence that all guilds behaved the same way.
- C
More active enforcement doesn't establish more demanding rules. The strictness of most guilds' standards isn't compared with the canon lawyers'.
- D
This can feel right after reading about so much weak discipline. But that trouble concerns the canon lawyers, not medieval guilds generally. And even for the lawyers, the examples show reluctance and deliberate obstruction, not simply difficulty carrying out enforcement. Return to the small clause supporting B rather than letting the whole story about lawyers supply a broader claim.
- E
The Florentine example identifies one guild's conduct. It doesn't compare ethical standards across cities.
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