Historian: Radio drama requires

Answer choices

1. A

   Weakens7% picked this

   People spend as much time watching television today as people spent listening to radio

   If television provides even a small opportunity to exercise one's imagination, this could make it possible that today's generation exercise their imaginations as much or more than earlier generations.

   7%
2. B

   Too Strong3% picked this

   The more familiar a form of popular entertainment becomes, the less likely its consumers are

   This is a relative relationship that the argument does not require. The argument never actually addressed how familiar each form of popular entertainment was before or is today.

   3%
3. C

   Out of Scope2% picked this

   Because it inhibits the development of creativity, television is a particularly undesirable form

   The desirability of a form of entertainment is not relevant to the argument.

   2%
4. D

   Correct53% picked this

   For today's generation of television viewers, nothing fills the gap left by radio as a medium

   Why this is right

   This defends the argument from a possibility that would destroy the argument's reasoning. If something did fill the gap left by radio, then today's generation would not necessarily exercise their imaginations less frequently.

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

   53%
5. E

   Too Strong35% picked this

   Television drama does not require its viewers to think about what

   It's too strong to say that viewers don't have to think about what they see when they watch TV drama. The salient comparison in the argument is about imaginative thinking. Radio forces you to think about what a scene or character looks like. You have to imagine what it looks like. With TV, you don't have to imagine what it looks like, but you still might have to think. After all, you still have to process dialogue. You might think about what's coming next in the story. You might have to think about information you learned in past episodes. If this answer said, "TV drama does not require its viewers to do as much imaginative thinking as radio does", it would be fine.

   35%