Logical Reasoning

PT118 · S1 · Q6 Maria: Popular music is bad

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Maria: Popular music is bad art because it greatly exaggerates the role love plays in everyday life and thereby fails to represent reality accurately.

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.

6.

The dialogue provides the most support for the claim that Maria and Theo disagree over whether

  1. most good art creates consoling

    Trap

    0% picked this

  2. some bad art exaggerates the

    Trap

    0% picked this

  3. art should always represent reality

    Trap

    8% picked this

  4. Correct

    art need not represent reality

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    90% picked this

  5. popular music should not be

    Trap

    2% picked this

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