PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 8
In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England,(438 more words not shown)
The passage contains support for(18 more words not shown)
- AThese scholars tend(23 more words not shown)
- BThese scholars tend(25 more words not shown)
- CSpecialists in such(22 more words not shown)
- DLanguage specialists have(24 more words not shown)
- EScholars who analyze(29 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The missing piece is the combination. A scholar might read Latin well without understanding advanced science; a historian of science might know the subject without being able to interpret this Latin. We aren't saying that either group has no relevant training. Each brings something useful but lacks something else the work requires.
Working the answers
- A
This takes away both kinds of training. The language specialists do know Latin. The intellectual historians do study the period's ideas. Their different limitations don't mean they lack expertise in both areas.
- BCorrect
Lacking the combination of skills is different from lacking each skill. The ending says a classicist isn't trained for the range of scientific problems, while few intellectual historians can read the relevant Latin. That is exactly the gap B describes.
- C
The people editing poems and orations are identified as learned students of Renaissance Latin and language specialists. The problem isn't that they lack the Latin training; it's that they leave the specialized technical works to others.
- D
They leave law and medicine to subject specialists. They haven't examined those works in excessive detail. D reverses the problem.
- E
The works cited from Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Sidney are in English. We aren't told about this difficulty interpreting important Latin works by those authors.
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