Question

The passage suggests that Professor Clive Holmes would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

• A. An understanding of seventeenth-century English local institutions requires a consideration of national issues.
• B. The "country community" school of seventeenth- century English history distorts historical evidence in order to establish continuity between old and new institutions.
• C. Most historians distort reality by focusing on national concerns to the exclusion of local concerns.
• D. National issues are best understood from the perspective of those at the local level.
• E. Local histories of seventeenth-century English villages have contributed little to the understanding of village life.

Answer 1

The correct option is A An understanding of seventeenth-century English local institutions requires a consideration of national issues.

In the last paragraph, it is given that the issue of removing all national issues to study a local community was exposed by Professor Clive Holmes. It is also given that such an assumption is a mistake. Hence we can select option (a) as the answer.