LSAT 112 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q9

RC Question 9 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Seelines 37-42. English scholars studied and spoke Latin. They followed what happened in Europe, where authors wrote in Latin.

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1. The passage says English scholars were fluent in Latin (lines 37-39), so there’s no support for this answer.
2. Lines 37-39 imply that the English were just as skilled at Latin as people who lived in continental Europe. The passage never said that Europeans taught the English Latin.
3. This sounds very good, but it says that the writers had different concerns. Oops. Lines 45-46 say that writers in England had the same concerns as people elsewhere. 
4. CORRECT. Line 37 says that scholars ignore the Latin culture of Renaissance England. And they’ve ignored the links English scholars had with the continent. So it’s likely true that the intellectual bonds between England and the continent were stronger than modern scholars tend to realize. 
5. The whole point of the article is that modern scholars underemphasize the intellectual ties between Renaissance Britain and the rest of the European continent.