Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT117 S4 Q15 Explanation

Artists have different ways of

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Stimulus

Artists have different ways of producing contours and hatching, and analysis of these stylistic features can help to distinguish works by a famous artist both from forgeries and from works genuinely by other artists. Indeed, this analysis has shown that many of actually by the artist Giulio Clovio, Michelangelo’s contemporary.

What this question is testing

Must be True

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
15.

If the statements above are true, then which one of the following must

Answer choices

  1. Too Strong: the main4% picked this

    Contours and hatching are the main features that distinguish the drawing styles

    Trap answers love to put too much emphasis on the one thing we heard about. Just because we only talked about contours and hatching doesn't mean they're the main feature. LSAT teachers often have entire lessons on Conditional Logic, but that doesn't imply that Conditional Logic is the main feature of the LSAT.

  2. No Support: forgeries5% picked this

    Many of the drawings formerly attributed to Michelangelo are

    All we know about many of the drawing formerly thought to be Michelangelo's is that they turned out to be non-forgeries. They are drawings by a different artist, Giulio Clovio, from a similar time period.

  3. Too Strong: no forgery can4% picked this

    No forgery can perfectly duplicate the contour and hatching styles of

    This definitely is in the right realm, in a gist-y way. Since contour/hatching style can help to tell a real painting from a forgery, it must be true that "forgeries do not always perfectly duplicate the contour and hatching styles". But we can't go as far "no forgery ever has perfectly duplicated those features".

  4. Too Strong: all4% picked this

    The contour and hatching styles used to identify the drawings of Clovio cited can be shown to be

    Nothing in the passage indicates that whatever contour/hatching style an artist uses in one painting, she uses in ALL paintings.

  5. Correct83% picked this

    There is an analyzable difference between Clovio’s contour and hatching styles and

    Why this is right

    In order for "this analysis (of contour and hatching styles) to have shown that certain paintings weren't Michelangelo and were actually Giulio Clovio", it has to be true that they have perceptibly different styles of contour/hatching.

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

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