PrepTest 112 - Section 2 - Passage 2 - Question 7

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In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, J. W. Binns asserts that the drama of Shakespeare, the verse of Marlowe, and the prose of Sidney—all of whom wrote in English—do not alone represent the high culture of Renaissance (roughly sixteenth- and seventeenth-century) England. ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ █████ █████████ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ███ ████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███████ ██████████████ ███ █████ ██ ████ █████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ █████ ███ ███████ ████████████ ██ ███ ████████████ ███

Binns' perspective · Latin was culturally important during English Renaissance

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Problem · Specialists in Renaissance Latin neglect culturally important works

Theology, science, law, medicine

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Expand problem · English intellectual historians neglect important influence of Latin

They only cover works written in English, and ignore influences of Latin on English intellectuals

Example of Latin influence · Late Renaissance humanism

English writers were influenced by humanist thinkers, who drew on ancient Latin texts

Summarize problem · Gap between specialists in Latin and specialists in English intellectual history

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Implication of problem · Distorted understanding of Renaissance English history

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In a Problem-Analysis passage, if the author doesn’t discuss a solution to the problem, then the main point is typically the fact that the problem exists or why it exists. Here, the author describes the problem of too little attention given to Latin works of law, theology, and science. The author doesn’t present a solution, but rather, explains that the problem results from the lack of overlap in academic specializations. Let’s look for an answer that captures the problem and its cause.

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This doesn’t capture the problem posed by too little attention given to Latin works of law, theology, and science. The author’s point isn’t to claim what kind of work is more important to an understanding of the Renaissance period; it’s to point out a problem with the scope of our sources when understanding the Renaissance period.

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Not supported, because the author doesn’t suggest that these authors wrote in Latin. The author’s point is that we’re overlooking other sources written by other people, not that we’re overlooking some of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Sidney.

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This doesn’t capture the problem posed by too little attention given to Latin works of law, theology, and science. The author’s point isn’t to describe the context in which Latin has traditionally been studied; it’s to point out a problem with the scope of our sources when understanding the Renaissance period.

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Too narrow. The author’s point isn’t that historians of science and theology have ignored certain Latin texts. It’s that certain Latin texts have been ignored as a result of the specializations of intellectual historians and language specialists.

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This best captures the author’s point, which is that too little attention is given to certain Latin texts as a result of academic specialization. The author makes this point in the middle of P1, supports it in the rest of P1 and P2, and summarize the problem in P3.

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