Q9

[towardvision]

I didn't like D because it was about the intellectual ties between
English and Continental writers.

I don't know where in the passage it says there were intellectual ties among the writers. I see that the English intellectuals "spoke and wrote Latin" and "inhabited as adults an intellectual world in which what happened abroad." Do these lines insinuate that there were intellectual ties between the continental and English writers?

Also, could you explain the lines 35 to 37: "underestimating the influence on English writers of their counterparts on the European Continent," so whose influence on what is underestimated?

Thanks.

[evelina.chang]

I got this question wrong as well, but when I reread the question and passage, I assume that 'intellectual ties' can be found in line 42~49.

[alexg89]

For anyone else who comes across this question this is my interpretation of the answer choices.

A - Unsupported, "writes more in Latin" not found in text

B- Unsupported, " more intellectually advanced" not found in text

C- Unsupported, " intellectual concerns for the most part different" not found in text.

D - Correct, Supported by lines 33-49

In those noted lines it mentions the importance of Latin to both English intellectuals and their counterparts in Europe. And " Latin works by Continental humanists that were not translated at the time to any modern language became the bases of classic English works of literature and scholarship"

E - Unsupported. The ties were not overemphasized, if anything they were under-emphasized.

[ericha3535]

I believe this question directly comes from line 36.

It says that Binn claims the intellectual historians have undermined the relationship between English writers and the continental writers. That means they were stronger than "more acknowledged" as D is saying.

[JinZ551]

I think B is also incorrect because of the "were on the whole responsible for", which is unsupported and way too strong.