Q25

[cyruswhittaker]

Once again with POE, I've effectively limited the question down to two choices: B and E.

I immediately went to the last paragraph at line 60 "Future studies..."

However, both seemed supported. I'm thinking E is incorrect because it references "historical developments...responsible for" but I'm still unsure.

If you could please help me to understand why B is a better choice than E, I would greatly appreciate it.

[aileenann]

I think you should feel comfortable getting rid of (E) because it's not even clearly on point regarding women *medical* practitioners. That is, (E) is only about how the legal tradition restricted women - and specifically restricted all women. On the other hand, (B) is directly on point, speaking about constraints that would have accessed women and their role vis-a-vis medical education.

I hope this makes sense! Please let me know if you have questions or follow-up comments of your own.

[jayparkcom]

Actually, one needs to go back and synthesize information from line 56 and 60.
56 says something about future study will benefit from studying social context
whereas
60 says "information on economic, literacy and medical knowledge will be great for the future study"
if you combine that social context + medical knowledge, you get B.

[tommywallach]

JayPark is absolutely right! (Well done, sir!)

-t

[WaltGrace1983]

I just wanted to add how I got to this answer. It happened way too slowly and ate up about 2 minutes off my clock ( ) but it happened nonetheless!

The author says "Information about economic rivalry in medicine, women's literacy, and the control of medical knowledge could add much to our growing understanding of women medical practitioners' role in medieval society." So I thought about these things and went to the questions with that in mind.

(B) is the most analogous to what the author is saying here because it deals directly with the "control of medical knowledge." If we focused on "the effect of social constraints on medieval women's access to medical education" then this would deal directly with how women were not in control when obtaining medical knowledge - other social constraints held them down!

(A) is wayyyyy too broad. We could be talking about men, women, children, etc. We also don't know if it is talking about medical practitioners. This is all stuff we'd like to have info on.

(C) This is just ludicrous. This isn't relevant to the final paragraph where we are supposed to find this answer.

(D) This, like (C), isn't relevant to the final paragraph, where we are supposed to find this answer.

(E) I think this is a fine answer but not better than (B) because, as others have mentioned, it is a bit too broad. (B) is much more analogous with the text while (E)'s study could have to do with women in the legal world or mothers or whatever.