As part of a new trend

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong8% picked this

   Studying the details of historical events and motivations lessens our ability to

   While replacing one emphasis for another lessons our ability to learn from history, it’s unclear whether it is the new emphasis, the loss of the old emphasis, or the combination of both that lessons our ability to learn from history.

   8%
2. B

   Unsupported Relationship3% picked this

   Overarching historical trends and movements can be discerned only when details of historical events and

   The statements do not imply, as this answer does, that the two emphases are incompatible.

   3%
3. C

   Too Strong4% picked this

   Those who attend to overall trends and movements in history and not to details are the best able

   While those who attend to overall trends in history are better able to learn from history than those who attend to details, it does not follow that those who attend to overall trends are the best able to learn from history.

   4%
4. D

   Correct79% picked this

   A change in emphasis in the interpretation of history has lessened our ability to

   Why this is right

   The words “in consequence” imply that the first statement (the change in emphasis in the interpretation of history) caused the second (our ability to learn from history has been lessened) to occur.

   Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   79%
5. E

   Too Strong5% picked this

   History should be interpreted in a way that gives equal emphasis to overarching historical trends and movements and to the details

   While the change lessons our ability to learn from history, that does not imply that the new trend in the writing of history should be abandoned, nor does it suggest that a model giving equal emphasis to both forms of interpreting history should be embraced.

   5%