LSAT 102 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q12

RC Question 12 Explanation

DISCUSSION: See lines 37-44. Parry’s successors ignored most aspects of his work. They focussed on oral poetry itself, and what it could and could not do.

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1. Lines 37-44 say these scholars only studied oral poetry.
2. This was something Adam Parry did.
    
   (lines 57-61)
3. This is something that non-academic critics did.
    
   (lines 6-10)
4. CORRECT. Lines 40-44 say this directly. The scholars were interested in what oral poetry could and could not do.
5. No one said this. After the 1970s, there was a revival of scholarly interest in Homer. But we don’t know if Homer was ever popular.