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Craft and StructureVery hardAccepting a cause while adding a missing channel

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Historian Ada Krol argues that the printing press made the Reformation possible: cheap pamphlets carried reformers' ideas across Europe faster than any authority could suppress them. Text 2 Pamphlets mattered, historian Marek Sato agrees, but in the 1520s fewer than one person in ten could read. The press's real effect ran through preachers, who read pamphlets aloud in market squares and taverns; without those oral networks the printed word would have reached almost no one.

Based on the texts, how would Sato most likely respond to Krol's claim?

  1. A. By accepting that the press mattered while arguing that its influence depended on a channel Krol overlooks.Correct
  2. B. By denying that pamphlets played any role in spreading reformers' ideas.
  3. C. By arguing that literacy rates were higher than Krol assumes.
  4. D. By claiming that the Reformation began before the printing press existed.

Answer: A. By accepting that the press mattered while arguing that its influence depended on a channel Krol overlooks.

Sato 'agrees' pamphlets mattered, then adds that with low literacy the press only worked through preachers reading aloud — a channel absent from Krol's account.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By denying that pamphlets played any role in spreading reformers' ideas.
Sato explicitly agrees that 'pamphlets mattered'.
C. By arguing that literacy rates were higher than Krol assumes.
Sato stresses how LOW literacy was — fewer than one in ten — as the reason oral networks were needed.
D. By claiming that the Reformation began before the printing press existed.
Nothing in Text 2 concerns when the Reformation began.

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