PrepTest 122, Section 3, Question 20
Surviving sources of information about women doctors in(458 more words not shown)
The passage most strongly supports(13 more words not shown)
- AThose who became(9 more words not shown)
- BThose who were(13 more words not shown)
- CThere is no(13 more words not shown)
- DThere is no(15 more words not shown)
- ESome of those(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks for an inference about women in ancient Greece and Rome. We have several facts to check, but I don't have one precise new statement to predict. A broad idea such as women being judged by skill rather than gender could go beyond the evidence, so I'll stay with the specific claims and their implications.
Working the answers
- A
No typical career length is given. The fact that our records are fragmentary doesn't tell us the doctors practiced only briefly.
- B
Nothing describes an expectation that women who weren't doctors would practice medicine within their families.
- CCorrect
The opening calls Francesca de Romana's 1321 license the first such licensing event documented in any known official record (paragraph 1). The Greek and Roman doctors came earlier. If an earlier official licensing record for one of them were known, the 1321 case wouldn't be the earliest known one.
Keep the conclusion that narrow: no known official record of their licensing. We have not proved that none ever held a license, or that women weren't practicing medicine. Their practice is the point the surviving evidence establishes.
- D
Not being limited to midwifery doesn't mean never also working as a midwife. The account doesn't establish the absence of reliable evidence for someone doing both.
- E
The quoted honors concern medical work. No nonmedical civic accomplishment is identified.
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