PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 14
In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England,(438 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(10 more words not shown)
- Aan enumeration of(2 more words not shown)
- Bcontrasting views of(2 more words not shown)
- Ca summary of(2 more words not shown)
- Da discussion of(3 more words not shown)
- Ea correction of(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've been explaining a serious gap: the people who know the Latin and the people who know the specialized subjects aren't bringing their expertise together. Important texts remain insufficiently understood. So the overall purpose is to describe a problem in how Renaissance intellectual culture has been studied.
Working the answers
- A
We aren't given a list of new approaches. Explaining what's missing from current scholarship doesn't amount to enumerating new methods.
- B
There are two groups of specialists, but not two opposing theories being compared. Their different limitations contribute to the same problem.
- C
The historical and theological disputes are mentioned as things scholars study. We don't get a summary of those disputes themselves.
- DCorrect
The significant deficiency is the failure to cross academic boundaries, leaving important texts inadequately understood. The ending explains its significance: it distorts our understanding of Renaissance England. That matches the problem we've followed throughout.
- E
Binns is an author whose criticism helps make the point. The writer isn't correcting his misconceptions; the closing assessment agrees that the scholarly divide produces distortion.
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