1. Which one of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?
(A) Although previous scholarship portrayed the Renaissance as a time of expanded education for women, recent scholarship has shown that fewer women received an education during the Renaissance than in medieval times. - "Fewer women received an education" is out of scope.
(B) The differences in the Renaissance educational curricula for males and females reflected expectations about how the members of each gender would apply their education. - ok
(C) The education of women during the Renaissance did not prepare them for careers in literature, but many of these women managed to contribute noteworthy literary works. - The passage states, "Renaissance women educated (65) along humanist lines, did not tend to write works of philosophy; instead, they became most notable for literary achievements," so saying that the education didn't prepare them for a career in literature is wrong. Moreover,
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(A) Although previous scholarship portrayed the Renaissance as a time of expanded education for women, recent scholarship has shown that fewer women received an education during the Renaissance than in medieval times. - "Fewer women received an education" is out of scope.
(B) The differences in the Renaissance educational curricula for males and females reflected expectations about how the members of each gender would apply their education. - ok
(C) The education of women during the Renaissance did not prepare them for careers in literature, but many of these women managed to contribute noteworthy literary works. - The passage states, "Renaissance women educated (65) along humanist lines, did not tend to write works of philosophy; instead, they became most notable for literary achievements," so saying that the education didn't prepare them for a career in literature is wrong. Moreover,
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