Question 4.

The author criticises scholars who are not geographers for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
A
their rejection of the role of biogeographic factors in social and cultural phenomena.
B
their outdated interpretations of past cultural and historical phenomena.
C
their labelling of geographic explanations as deterministic.
D
the importance they place on the role of individual decisions when studying human phenomena.

Question Explanation

Text Explanation

All options except B relate to the contents of the passage. The author does not state or imply that scholars who are not geographers make outdated interpretations of past cultural and historical phenomena.


Options A and C true, based on the lines, 'Today, no scholar would be silly enough to deny that culture, history, and individual choices play a big role in many human phenomena. Scholars don't react to cultural, historical, and individual-agent explanations by denouncing "cultural determinism," "historical determinism," or "individual determinism," and then thinking no further. But many scholars do react to any explanation invoking some geographic role, by denouncing "geographic determinism"...'

The question is " The author criticises scholars who are not geographers for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: "

Hence, the answer is 'their outdated interpretations of past cultural and historical phenomena.'

Choice B is the correct answer.


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