Question

first read: selection vocabulary
identify the choice that best answers the question.
what does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of ken in this excerpt from \my old home\?
jun - tus mind was a treasure - house of such strange lore, all of it outside the ken of my former friends. they were ignorant of all these things and, while jun - tu lived by the sea, they like me could see only the four corners of the sky above the high courtyard wall.
○ a. strong ties of friendship
○ b. range of knowledge
○ c. coastal area
○ d. male figure

Explanation:

The text mentions that Jun - tu had strange lore (knowledge) that was "outside the ken" of the narrator's former friends, and then describes the friends as ignorant. This implies that "ken" relates to knowledge.

Answer:

B. range of knowledge