Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is the best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose any one of the others.

His intimate knowledge of the characters and atmosphere of Elizabethan social life and political life convinced him that Elizabethan writers drew their models and their atmosphere from concurrent life.