likely to be among the “issues” mentioned in line 38？
（A） Why has the work of Griffith， a woman writer
who was popular in her own century， been
excluded from the canon？
（B） In what ways did Griffith's work reflect the polit-
ical climate of the eighteenth century？
（C） How was Griffith's work received by literary
critics during the eighteenth century？
（D） How did the error in the title of Griffith's play
come to be made？
（E） How did critical reception of Griffith's work
affect the quantity and quality of that work？
23. It can be inferred that the author of the passage con-
siders traditional scholarly methods courses to be
（A） irrelevant to the work of most students
（B） inconsequential because of their narrow focus
（C） unconcerned about the accuracy of reference
sources
（D） too superficial to establish important facts about
authors
（E） too wide-ranging to approximate genuine scholarly
activity
Experiments show that insects can function as pollinators
of cycads， rare， palmlike tropical plants. Furthermore， cycads
removed from their native habitats-and therefore from
insects native to those habitats-are usually infertile. Nev-
（5） ertheless， anecdotal reports of wind pollination in cycads
cannot be ignored. The structure of cycads male cones is
quite consistent with the wind dispersal of pollen， clouds
of which are released from some of the larger cones. The
male cone of Cycas circinalis， for example， sheds almost
（10）100 cubic centimeters of pollen， most of which is probably
dispersed by wind. Still， many male cycad cones are com-
paratively small and thus produce far less pollen. Further-
more， the structure of most female cycad cones seems incon-
sistent with direct pollination by wind. Only in the Cycas
（15）genus are the females' ovules accessible to airborne pollen，
since only in this genus are the ovules surrounded by a
loose aggregation of megasporophylls rather than by a tight
cone.
24.According to the passage， the size of a male cycad
cone directly influences which of the following？
（A） The arrangement of the male cone's structural
elements
（B） The mechanism by which pollen is released from
the male cone.
（C） The degree to which the ovules of female cycads
are accessible to airborne pollen
（D） The male cone's attractiveness to potential insect
pollinators
（E） The amount of pollen produced by the male cone
