Pg 527 (459) - Q34
The author claims forgeries as deserving of our attention because
they are important “as keys to understanding the changing nature of our
vision of the past,” which matches E; “as motors for the development of
scholarly and scientific techniques of
analysis,” which loosely matches D—the forgeries will serve as comparisons
to genuine works and lead to better techniques of detecting forgeries;
“as subverters of aesthetic certainties,” which matches B, and finally
“as the most entertaining of
monuments to the wayward talents of generations of gifted rogues,”
which is A. The only reason not mentioned is C.