PT156 S2 Q1 ExplanationWhen primatologist Akira Suzuki

Answer choices, explained

1. A

   Correct93% picked this

   Snow monkeys do not feed outside of their mountain habitat when food is readily

   Why this is right

   This follows directly from the before-and-after pattern. When food was not readily available in the mountain habitat, the monkeys roamed out to feed in apple orchards. Once Suzuki started providing soybeans in the mountain habitat — making food readily available there — the monkeys stopped raiding the orchards. That is exactly what this answer claims: snow monkeys do not feed outside their mountain habitat when food is available within it.

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

   93%
2. B

   Unsupported1% picked this

   For snow monkeys, soybeans provide more complete nutrition than

   The stimulus says nothing about how soybeans compare to other beans nutritionally. The monkeys ate soybeans because Suzuki provided them; we have no information about which beans are most nutritious or whether the monkeys would behave the same way with a different bean.

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3. C

   Unsupported4% picked this

   In feeding soybeans to the monkeys, Suzuki did not intend to provoke the phenomenal population

   The stimulus tells us what Suzuki did but not what he intended. Whether the population growth was a goal, a surprise, or a regret to him is simply not addressed. Most-strongly-supported answers cannot rely on the unstated motivations of people in the stimulus.

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4. D

   Unsupported1% picked this

   Snow monkeys eat apples only if there is no other fruit

   The stimulus says monkeys roamed to apple orchards before being fed soybeans. It does not tell us anything about other fruit or rank apples among other foods the monkeys might eat. This answer makes a much sharper claim — that monkeys eat apples only when no other fruit is available — that the stimulus simply does not establish.

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5. E

   Unsupported0% picked this

   Feeding soybeans to snow monkeys has proved to be an environmentally

   Whether feeding the monkeys was environmentally unsound is a value judgment the stimulus does not make. The population growth is described neutrally; the stimulus does not call it harmful or weigh costs against benefits.

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