LSAT PrepTest 112 - Section 2 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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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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The author describes Binns’ claim that the works of these authors “do not alone represent the high culture of Renaissance England.” Binns’s claim is an attempt to correct what Binns likely views as a misconception — that those authors alone represent the high culture of Renaissance England. Those authors do represent the high culture, but there are other authors and works, too, that were part of the high culture.

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The author never compares these authors’ nonfiction works to their fiction works.

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The author doesn’t suggest that anyone believes these authors have revolutionized Western thought. The author mentions that certain Latin works revolutionized Western thought; but she never discusses revolutionizing Western thought in connection with Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Sidney.

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The author doesn’t suggest these authors’ works have been treated as a coherent whole. The author mentions that scholars treat the “English-language writings of Renaissance England” as a coherent whole, but that doesn’t imply that the three authors mentioned in the question stem have been treated as a coherent whole. There were many other English writers. Together, the English writers’ works, including those by writers other than the three writers mentioned, have been treated as a coherent whole.

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This is the best answer. The author mentions these three authors as examples of authors whose works are thought to represent the high culture of Renaissance England. This sets up the next point in the paragraph, which is that they are not the only authors whose works are part of the high culture of Renaissance England.

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The author never suggests that these three authors wrote Latin works. Although English intellectuals generally did write in Latin, we don’t know, from the passage, that Shakespeare wrote in Latin.

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