I am totally on the same page as you guys with this one - I crossed out E because of the time period issue. However, on further review, I can see why it doesn't matter in this case. When the author introduces that geographer's work, he disclaims that people think the fear of the wilderness is uniquely modern/recent. Answer choice E helps support this idea that the fear of the wilderness is older than modern society. This would directly support his proposal that people traveled the pathways due to fear.

I still think it's hard to disqualify A on the same basis that you said, however I can see now that a huge part of the proposal is proving that this fear existed before the modern era.

I freaked out about this for my April LSAT because I was also at like 98% RAM and could not get it down. For me, it did not matter at all on test day, everything went fine and my proctor did not say anything. That was most other people's experience that I came across on the internet as well. I think it actually has something to do with the way that apple computers operate.

I would say to make sure to restart your computer and close out other tabs, but do not worry!!! Everything should be fine on test day!