Drama critic: There were many

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct59% picked this

   No play will be popular several centuries from now unless it continues to be performed regularly

   Why this is right

   When we see "unless", we can replace it with "if-not" (meaning, 'if it is not the case that ____ '). if not continued to be performed regularly during the intervening play won't be time (the decades and ? popular several centuries between now centuries from now and "several centuries from now") This is the link we predicted. They just made it weird by saying "intervening time". The author was thinking that a play won't be popular several centuries from now unless it continues to be performed (she doesn't think that a play written today would be un-performed for years and years and years and then suddenly be discovered several hundred years from now and become popular).

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

   59%
2. B

   Out of Scope: deserve acclaim1% picked this

   For a play to deserve high critical acclaim it must be popular for more than

   The author doesn't conclude anything about whether or not these plays deserve critical acclaim, so the author isn't committed to assuming any rule about what does / doesn't deserve high acclaim.

   1%
3. C

   Too Strong16% picked this

   There were no plays written last year that the drama critic has neither read

   Too Strong: critic read/saw all plays We have no way to derive from this paragraph that the critic either read or saw ever play written last year. He has an opinion about all of them (none of them examine human nature in a skillful way), but that doesn't mean he read or saw all of them. Maybe he had a trusted friend tell him about several plays: "Don't waste your time reading these or seeing these --- none of them skillfully examine human nature".

   16%
4. D

   Contradicted5% picked this

   If a play does not skillfully explore human nature, it will not

   Not only does the author not need to assume anything about whether plays will or won't receive critical acclaim (since that isn't part of the conclusion), this answer is actually contradicted by what we've read. We know that some of last year's plays will receive critical acclaim and all of them do not skillfully explore human nature. The plays that don't skillfully explore human nature and yet still receive critical acclaim would contradict this answer choice, so the author definitely isn't assuming something that would contradict what she said.

   5%
5. E

   Opposite / Reversed Logic19% picked this

   Any play that skillfully examines human nature will be performed regularly

   We were given a conditional in the last sentence that said doesn't skillfully ? won't be performed explore human nature regularly for centuries And this answer is just offering us an illegal negation of that. Does skillfully explore ? Will be performed

   19%