Q10

[gplaya123]

Need help with this question!

Is the answer, which is A, from the last paragraph?

No where did the passage indicate "since 1970" but only "1935 to 1970." I was having a hard time where to look for the answer...

[tommywallach]

Hey gplaya123,

Once again, this is a tough one. Notice, up in the first paragraph, how the years between 1935 and 1970 are described. "During these years...the questions that occupied the specialists were directed [away from the poetic qualities]." The implication is that something changed in 1970.

Then, in the last paragraph, we read "...Adam was among those scholars responsible for a renewed interest in Homer's poetry as literary art."

Though it doesn't explicit say this was 1970, we can legally infer that, because we know that the years between 1935 and 1970 represent a turning away from that focus, and here we have a "renewed interest."

(B) Nothing is more incisive than the work of the Parrys. The author actually has favorable things to say about both of them.

(C) "irrelevant" is far too strong. Even if the new scholarship was focused on a different aspect of the poems, it wouldn't necessarily reject the older work as "irrelevant"

(D) Similar to (C), "ignored" is too strong. We have no reason to believe those two were entirely ignored.

(E) That work is ascribed to scholarship BEFORE 1935, not after 1970.

-t

P.S. Also, when this test was administered, the first sentence, which states "a new surge of critical interest...has taken place in the last twenty years or so", would have pointed to around the late 70s, which might have made it slightly clearer.

[mimimimi]

I wonder if the first sentence of the first paragraph is the clue? "While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so..." PT25 was administered in 1998, so..