Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT156 S4 Q6 ExplanationAnthropologist: During the last ice age

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Stimulus

Anthropologist: During the last ice age, nomadic communities probably needed at least 15 or 20 members to survive, and they were generally not much larger than this. Ice-age nomads are commonly portrayed as primarily big-game hunters, but most of their food must have in fact come from other sources, such as small would have risked the lives of several members of the community.

What this question is testing

Role

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
6.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the argumentation by the statement that ice-age nomads are commonly portrayed

Answer choices, explained

  1. Trap5% picked this

    It is a premise used as support for the overall conclusion of

  2. Trap2% picked this

    It is a clarification of one of the premises of the

  3. Trap2% picked this

    It is an objection that the anthropologist raises against an

  4. Trap1% picked this

    It is the overall conclusion of the

  5. Correct90% picked this

    It describes a claim that the anthropologist attempts

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

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