PrepTest 104, Section 2, Question 8
By the mid-fourteenth century, professional associations of canon(451 more words not shown)
According to the passage, which(13 more words not shown)
- ASome English lawyers(20 more words not shown)
- BEnglish canon lawyers(15 more words not shown)
- CEnglish civil lawyers(14 more words not shown)
- DEnglish ecclesiastical courts(8 more words not shown)
- EEnglish ecclesiastical courts(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The English comparison gives us similar ethical standards, more disciplinary actions in civil courts, and some lawyers practicing in both systems. We need a statement supported by those facts, not a broader history of how the courts developed.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Paragraph 3 identifies lawyers who practiced in both civil and church courts. The groups are described as partly shared, rather than wholly separate or identical. That supports some lawyers practicing in both and others in just one. This is a reading of the comparison in context, not a rule that the word “some” always excludes “all.”
- B
Canon lawyers showed little interest in initiating proceedings against colleagues. Nothing establishes that they did so more often than civil lawyers.
- C
We compare civil and church courts in England, not English civil lawyers with civil lawyers elsewhere in Europe.
- D
Similar standards don't tell us one system was modeled on the other. No such origin story is given.
- E
English church records are called “extraordinarily rich.” They aren't ranked against English civil-court records. More recorded disciplinary actions in one system also doesn't establish that its records are more thorough.
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