Q12

[noah]

In this inference question, the correct answer, (D) is widely supported in the text. In various places we learn that Stilgoe's work depends on analyzing the work of various artists. From those works, he drew a conclusion about public sentiment.

(A) is out of scope and plain silly.

(B) is tempting, the writers did seem to be onto something that others were not. However, did those writers anticipate something that everyone else later embraced, as (B) suggests? No. (And, to answer the question of the original poster, lines 53-58 tell us that the division continued, not that the rest of society joined the intellectual's bandwagon.)

(C) is unsupported. The answer references writers that were not popular while the passage never indicates that the writers in question were unpopular. Being a minority doesn't make you unpopular.

(D) is not wrong, it's right.

(E) is out of scope -- we never hear about private letters and journals.