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ID: LSAT-LR-073
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Hard

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The received account of the sixteenth-century enclosures is that they were resisted everywhere they were attempted. The court records certainly show resistance -- they show little else, because a quiet enclosure generated no case and left no paper. What the records establish is not that resistance was universal but that we can only see the enclosures that were resisted.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

AA quiet enclosure generated no court case, and so left no paper behind for a later historian to find and count.

BSixteenth-century enclosures were resisted wherever they were attempted, as the surviving court records of the period show in case after case.

CThe court records show resistance because resistance is the only kind of enclosure that produced a record, so what they establish is the limit of our view rather than the extent of the opposition.

DCourt records are an unreliable source for the historian who wants to know how common enclosure was in the sixteenth century.

EMany sixteenth-century enclosures went unresisted and so left no trace in the court records, which is why the surviving cases make resistance look commoner than it was.

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