PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 10
In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England,(438 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(16 more words not shown)
- Anonfiction works are(7 more words not shown)
- Bworks have unfairly(6 more words not shown)
- Cworks have been(7 more words not shown)
- Dworks have traditionally(10 more words not shown)
- ELatin writings have,(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
These are the familiar writers Binns starts from before saying they don't give us the whole picture. Notice “do not alone represent”: he isn't dismissing their work. He's challenging the assumption that those English-language works are enough to represent Renaissance England's high culture.
Working the answers
- A
No comparison of their nonfiction and imaginative works' reputations is given. Their role here concerns the limits of an English-language account of the culture.
- B
Works that revolutionized Western thought are mentioned, but that description belongs to the neglected Latin writings in technical fields. The author doesn't accuse these three writers of receiving unfair credit for that achievement.
- C
This phrase does appear in paragraph two, describing historians' treatment of English-language writings as a whole. But the three names open the discussion as familiar representatives of high culture. C doesn't identify their specific role in that opening claim.
- DCorrect
Saying their works don't represent the culture by themselves challenges the traditional picture built around them. We need to include important Latin works too. That's why these familiar English writers are the starting point.
- E
The cited works are expressly identified as English. They aren't examples of overlooked Latin writings.
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