<p>Can someone explain sentence completion question #10 from the blue book, page 88? I don't understand what the sentence is saying.</p>
<p>Plug in words that would make sense in the sentence; don't look at the answer choices.</p>
<p>In the nineteenth century many literacy critics saw themselves as stern, authoritarian figures defending society against the blank of those blank beings called authors.</p>
<p>I would say "against the corruption of those"
The second blank is tricky, but you know its an adj describing authors. In the sentence, "defending against" alludes to contrast; you need a word that is opposite of stern or authoritarian.</p>
<p>Only A, depravities..wayward works.</p>