LSAT 102 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q10

RC Question 10 Explanation

DISCUSSION: See lines 1-6. There’s been a recent increase in scholarly work on Homer’s poems. Before 1970, only non-academics studied Homer’s poems as poems.

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1. CORRECT. Before 1970, scholars studied side issues (lines 11-15). Now they are again studying the poems as poems.
2. We’re never told if recent scholarly work is good. We only know they’ve started studying the poems again.
3. This goes too far. The scholars might draw on some of that scholarship to illustrate some aspects of the poems.
4. Who knows? Simone Weil and Erich Auerbach might have done such good work that scholars cite them, even though they weren’t academics.
5. Authorship is a non-poetic part of the poems. Scholars are now focussing on the literary aspects of the poems themselves.