Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT144 S3 Q7 Explanation

Critic: The recent biography

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Critic: The recent biography of Shakespeare does not explain what is of most interest about him. It is by an expert on the history of Elizabethan England, and so does a good job of showing what life would have been like for Shakespeare as not explain what made Shakespeare different from his contemporaries.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question
7.

The conclusion of the argument can be properly drawn if which one of the

Answer choices

  1. Supports a Premise3% picked this

    There is no way to know what made Shakespeare different from

    This supports a premise in the argument.

  2. Out of Scope1% picked this

    The life of the average man in Elizabethan England

    Whether the life of the average man is interesting is not relevant to the argument.

  3. Supports a Premise6% picked this

    Shakespeare was very different from the other men of

    This supports a premise in the argument.

  4. Out of Scope4% picked this

    A biography should always focus on what makes its

    What a biography should focus on is not relevant to the argument.

  5. Correct87% picked this

    What is most interesting about Shakespeare is what made him different

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap EMI ? ED between what is most interesting about Shakespeare and what made him different from his contemporaries.

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

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