Q12

[hamham]

I understand that we need to look at lines 4-9, but I don't see the link to the answer.

Thank you

[ohthatpatrick]

You nailed it. What do those lines tell us that students of British law have to study?
medieval cases

(I left off maxims and principles because the verbs there were different ... they "interpret" and "confront" vs. "study")

So ... let's look for a paraphrase of "medieval cases"

(A) history? politics?

(B) episodes of litigation = cases
Middle Ages = medieval

(C) treatises? philosophy?

(D) histories? Ancient Rome?

(E) essays? narrative?

(B) is the answer. It's obviously demanding some tough synonym work from us. You need to know that litigation refers to courtroom trials and that medieval times are a synonym for the Middle Ages. Given that the keywords in the question stem lead us RIGHT to a very compact data point of an answer, "medieval cases", they had to think of SOME way to make this challenging.