PrepTest 105, Section 3, Question 23

DetailDifficulty5 of 5
Passage 4Renaissance education for women: wider access, restricted roles
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In the past, students of Renaissance women's education(447 more words not shown)

Each of the following aspects(10 more words not shown)

Reading the passage

We need the aspect that wasn't mentioned. The question uses category labels, so “a method” might appear as a concrete classroom activity rather than as the word method. Check for actual support before choosing the exception.

Working the answers

  • A

    Mentioned. Male students learned through “rhetorical, argumentative role-playing.” That's a training method.

  • B

    Mentioned. Public service in legal and political debate was one goal. Women's education was directed toward private enjoyment and teaching very young children. Both tell us what the education was supposed to accomplish.

  • C

    Mentioned. Students began with grammar and progressed to stylistics and literary criticism. That gives us a sequence of subjects.

  • D
    Correct

    No types of schools offering grammar studies are identified. The reference to universities concerns rhetorical training, and a family setting for girls' education doesn't supply a description of grammar-school types. We shouldn't fill in an educational system the text hasn't described.

  • E

    Mentioned. Dialectic and rhetoric are identified as necessary preparation for philosophy, politics, and professional work (paragraph 2). Required disciplines are prerequisites, even though the text doesn't use that exact word.

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