Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were

Question

Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives  recorded by missionaries or anthropologists now understand this body of work to consist of both oral literatures and the written works of Native American authors, who have been publishing since 1772.

A. Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral
narratives

B. Scholars thinking of Native American literatures once solely as oral narratives, and

C. Scholars who once had thought of Native American literatures solely as oral narratives and

D. Native American literatures, which some scholars once thought were solely oral narratives

E. Native American literatures, which some scholars once, thinking they were solely oral narratives

qhoc0010 · Answer

(A)
I seperate different parts of the sentence in color for easy understand

 Scholars   who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives  recorded by missionaries or anthropologists    now  understand  this body of work to consist of both oral literatures and the written works of Native American authors, who have been publishing since 1772.

chunjuwu · Answer

(A)
I seperate different parts of the sentence in color for easy understand

 Scholars   who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives  recorded by missionaries or anthropologists    now  understand  this body of work to consist of both oral literatures and the written works of Native American authors, who have been publishing since 1772. Hello, qhoc0010, could you tell me why not choice C. 
I am supposed that in choice A it needs "that" to connect the noun sentence.

Thanks

qhoc0010 · Answer

You can rewrite (A) like this

Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives  that were  recorded by missionaries or anthropologists now understand this body of work to consist of both oral literatures and the written works of Native American authors, who have been publishing since 1772.

This is just a use of participle phrase.

praveen_rao7 · Answer

A it is

question is testing subject verb agreement

chunjuwu · Answer

hello, could you tell me what problem with D

thanks

qhoc0010 · Answer

(D) wrongly says
Native American literatures ... now understand this body ...
It is the "Scholars", not "Native American literatures"

greenandwise · Answer

Although I am the only one here I think C is the answer. I think the Past perfect tense is suitable in this situation because the anthropologists once had thought one thing but now they thing something else....but I could be wrong.

jpv · Answer

It has not been discussed. chunjuwu, do you have OA for this.

Well I pick (C). Conveys proper meaning.
(A): not correct. that or "of" is missing.

jpv · Answer

Ahh... missed.. I change my answer to (A)..
(C): Past Perfect is not required because there is no any other event in Simple past.

chunjuwu · Answer

Hi, OA is A.

noboru · Answer

is not the idiom think of X as Y? What's wrong with B?
thanks

Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were

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