PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 7
In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England,(438 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(8 more words not shown)
- AAnalyses of the(28 more words not shown)
- BThe English works(23 more words not shown)
- CThough traditionally recognized(23 more words not shown)
- DMany Latin texts(24 more words not shown)
- EMany Latin texts(22 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already predicted the problem: language specialists lack the necessary subject knowledge, while subject specialists lack the necessary Latin. Important texts fall between them, leaving our understanding of Renaissance England distorted. Look for that gap and its consequence, rather than one writer or one kind of text from the opening.
Working the answers
- A
Important doesn't mean more important than literature. The author wants these neglected works included in our understanding, not ranked above the humanistic and literary works scholars already study.
- B
The opening identifies these writers' English works. It doesn't contrast those with their own supposedly more challenging Latin writings. B attaches the neglected material to the wrong examples.
- C
We aren't given this history of Latin being studied mainly through ancient Roman texts until recently. The actual problem concerns which Renaissance texts specialists study and what they fail to understand.
- D
The crucial neglected technical works aren't ones literary scholars have already analyzed in depth. Language specialists generally leave those works to others. D misses that side of the gap and the resulting distortion.
- ECorrect
This captures why important Latin texts remain insufficiently understood: the expertise they require is split across academic specialties. The final sentence gives the consequence we predicted, an inaccurate understanding of Renaissance England’s intellectual life (paragraph 3). The examples explain how that failure happens.
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