Critic: To be a literary classic

Answer choices

1. A

   Reversed Logic11% picked this

   Any book worthy of serious study is a

   This answer offers an illegal reversal. This is what we know. Literary ? Reveals something ? worthy classic significant serious study This is what the answer is saying: worthy ? Literary serious study classic

   11%
2. B

   Correct71% picked this

   A book is a literary classic only if it is worthy

   Why this is right

   By connecting the two conditionals, we had this chain: Literary ? Reveals something ? worthy classic significant serious study This answer uses "only if", which always introduces the right side idea, so this conditional would look like this: Literary ? worthy classic serious study We can definitely prove this, since it's just saying, for our chain above, "If you're the 1st thing, then you're the 3rd thing".

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

   71%
3. C

   Contradicted4% picked this

   There are no literary classics worthy of

   From the chain we built by combining the two conditionals, Literary ? Reveals something ? worthy classic significant serious study ... we know that all literary classics are worthy of serious study.

   4%
4. D

   Could Be False6% picked this

   Some books worthy of serious study do not reveal anything significant about

   This definitely could be true, but it also could be false, given our chain. Literary ? Reveals something ? worthy classic significant serious study This answer is saying "in some cases, the 3rd thing is true but the 2nd isn't". That wouldn't violate this chain. It's always possible for the Necessary to be true even though the Sufficient is false. It's possible that some books worthy of serious study are not literary classics and thus don't necessarily reveal anything significant about the human condition. But the paragraph didn't talk about any such books, so we don't have any ammunition to prove that this statement must be true.

   6%
5. E

   Could Be False9% picked this

   Some books that reveal something significant about the human condition are

   This definitely could be true, but it also could be false, given our chain. Literary ? Reveals something ? worthy classic significant serious study This answer is saying "in some cases, the 2nd thing is true but the 1st isn't". That wouldn't violate this chain. It's always possible for the Necessary to be true even though the Sufficient is false. It's possible that some books that reveal something significant are not literary classics. But the paragraph didn't talk about any such books, so we don't have any ammunition to prove that this statement must be true.

   9%