Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT115 S4 Q8 Explanation

Jorge: You won’t be able

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Stimulus

Jorge: You won’t be able to write well about the rock music of the 1960s, since you were just an infant then. Rock music of the 1960s was created by and their teens and early twenties.

Ruth: Your reasoning is absurd. There are living writers who write well about ancient Roman culture, even though those writers are obviously not a part of ancient Roman culture. Why should my youth alone prevent me of a period as recent as the 1960s?

What this question is testing

Method

Your task

Describe how the argument proceeds — the technique it uses to reach its conclusion.

Common trap

Answers that describe a method the argument doesn't actually use.

Winning move

Track the role each statement plays, then match that to the choice describing the same moves.

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The question
8.

Ruth responds to Jorge’s criticism

Answer choices

  1. Trap1% picked this

    challenging his claim that she was not in her teens or early twenties

  2. Trap0% picked this

    clarifying a definition of popular culture that is left implicit in

  3. Trap2% picked this

    using the example of classical culture in order to legitimize contemporary culture as an object

  4. Correct96% picked this

    offering an analogy to counter an unstated assumption of

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

    Skill tested: Method · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  5. Trap2% picked this

    casting doubt on her opponent’s qualification to make judgments about

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