If the play were successful,

Answer choices

1. A

   Not a Flaw5% picked this

   fails to draw the conclusion that the play will not both be adapted as a movie and be revived at the Decade Festival, rather

   The author was correct in thinking that when you negate the idea of "adapted or revived", you get the idea that neither one of those occur. This is the familiar rule we know when we write a contrapositive: if you're contradicting "and", it becomes "or", and vice versa. Given the original Successful ? Adapted or Revived We would contrapose and get Adapted and Revived ? Successful

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2. B

   Not a Flaw2% picked this

   fails to explain in exactly what way the play

   Answers that ask for an exact definition, or exact measurement, or to name the author's sources, are never right. We accept the truth of the premises. You tell me it was unsuccessful in the premise, I accept that. I don't need you to explain how it was unsuccessful. I'm here to judge your reasoning — the accuracy with which you are using that conditional rule about successful plays.

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3. C

   Out of Scope: aesthetic worth1% picked this

   equates the play’s aesthetic worth with its

   Nothing in the argument is in any way evaluative. The author never implies any feeling about the aesthetic worth of the play. If anything, the "regrettably" suggests that the author liked the play and wanted it to become a movie or a revival, but we would have no idea if the author wanted that based on aesthetic worth. Not to mention, the author would be seemingly saying the play did not have commercial success, but did have aesthetic worth.

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4. D

   Not The Flaw11% picked this

   presumes, without providing justification, that there are no further avenues for the play other than adaptation as a movie or

   This sound like it's describing a False Choice, where the author illicitly assumes that there are only two options. But nothing the author says rules out the idea of the play being used in some other way.

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5. E

   Correct80% picked this

   fails to recognize that the play’s not satisfying one sufficient condition does not preclude its satisfying a different sufficient condition for adaptation as a

   Why this is right

   Being a "successful" play was a condition that was sufficient to guarantee that the play would be adapted or revived, but there might be other sufficient conditions (i.e. "a famous actor with connections loves this play and insists on doing it in a movie or at that festival") that would also lead to the play's being adapted or revived.

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

   80%