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Did the historical period known as the Renaissance (the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries in Europe) open up the same kinds of social, political, and intellectual possibilities for women as it did for men? Joan Kelly argued in 1977 that it did not, and at the time her insight seemed powerful, for she was the first historian to emphasize certain continuing harsh realities of women's lives during that period: control by fathers and husbands within the family, lack of power within the church, exclusion from educational institutions, and restrictions on women's right to control money or property. None of these facts suggests that women's lives had greatly changed since the Middle Ages. Yet some scholars contend that there are certain aspects of women's experience that Kelly may not have taken into account. One such scholarargues that during the Renaissance many women found in religious life levels of dignity and self-expression that were otherwise unavailable to them. Even if in general the social condition of women improved very little during this period, many women's sense of themselves changed as a result of their spiritual experience; this change is reflected in the religious writings of certain Renaissance women.

1. The passage is primarily concerned with

A. pointing out the similarities between two points of view on a particular historical issue

B. endorsing a traditional approach to a particular historical period

C. describing one scholar's response to another scholar's interpretation of a particular historical period

D. resolving a scholarly debate concerning a particular historical period

E. questioning the assumption on which scholarly interpretations of a particular historical period have been based

2.According to the scholar mentioned in the highlighted text, during the Renaissance, women found in religious life greater opportunity for

A. economic well-being

B. political influence

3.The passage suggests that Kelly's thesis “seemed powerful” (see highlighted text) because Kelly was one of the first historians to

A. suggest that the Renaissance had a greater impact on family structure than had previously been thought

B. focus on women's role in the church during the Renaissance

C. substantiate tentative historical claims about women's social circumstances during the Middle Ages

D. focus on the lives of individual women during the Renaissance rather than study the circumstances of women in general

E. stress the continuity of the social circumstances of women's lives from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance