PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 12
In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England,(438 more words not shown)
The information in the passage(13 more words not shown)
- AThese works are(14 more words not shown)
- BThese works have(18 more words not shown)
- CThese works are(21 more words not shown)
- DThese works constituted(10 more words not shown)
- EThese works were(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
These works are hard to read. That's my rough prediction: Newton's terminology, syntax, and scientific content are described as difficult. The final paragraph helps explain why knowing Latin alone—or knowing the science alone—doesn't solve the problem.
Working the answers
- A
There is no ranking of scientific and theological works by difficulty. Both are among the specialized writings being neglected.
- B
The supposed illuminating commentaries conflict with the Newton example. The historian finds “little or none” of the guidance available for Milton's poetry. We also aren't given this general claim about how seldom scientific works have been translated.
- CCorrect
The concepts can be beyond a classicist's training, while the language can be beyond a historian's training. Both obstacles matter. This takes our broad prediction that the works are difficult and identifies the two reasons the author gives.
- D
English intellectuals spoke and wrote Latin at university. That doesn't show these scientific works formed the core of the curriculum. Knowing the language of their education isn't the same as knowing its central subject matter.
- E
We don't know that most of these works were Continental. Nor did English intellectuals depend exclusively on English translations: they knew Latin, and untranslated Continental works helped shape English writing.
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