Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT135 S4 Q25 Explanation

Lutsina: Because futuristic science fiction

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Stimulus

Lutsina: Because futuristic science fiction does not need to represent current social realities, its writers can envisage radically new social arrangements. Thus it has the potential to be criticism than is conventional fiction.

Priscilla: That futuristic science fiction writers more skillfully envisage radically new technologies than new social arrangements shows how writers' imaginations are constrained by current realities. Because of this limitation, the most effective social criticism results from for critical examination, as happens in conventional fiction.

What this question is testing

Agree/Disagree

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
25.

Lutsina and Priscilla disagree with each other

Answer choices

  1. Half Scope4% picked this

    some science fiction writers have succeeded in envisaging convincing, radically new

    Neither Samuel nor Tova address a general trend of modern life.

  2. Out of Scope2% picked this

    writers of conventional fiction are more skillful than are writers of

    The overall skill level of writers of conventional fiction and writers of futuristic science fiction is discussed by neither Lutsina nor Priscilla.

  3. Correct83% picked this

    futuristic science fiction has more promise as a source of social criticism than

    Why this is right

    Lutsina would agree with this statement, while Priscilla would disagree with it.

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

  4. Half Scope7% picked this

    envisaging radically new technologies rather than radically new social arrangements is a shortcoming of

    While Priscilla would agree with this statement, Lutsina does not address it.

  5. Half Scope5% picked this

    criticism of current social arrangements is not effective when those arrangements are contrasted with

    Lutsina would disagree with this statement, but Priscilla does not address it.

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