Logical Reasoning

PrepTest 157 Section 3 Explanations

PrepTest 157 Section 3 is a Logical Reasoning section with 25 questions. It covers Flaw, Weaken, and Role questions, spanning Easy to Hard difficulty. Each explanation breaks down the right answer, the wrong-answer traps, and what to practice next.

Question 1

Over the long run, apple orchards

EasyStrengthen

Question 2

Banking industry visionaries foresee

EasyMain Conclusion

Question 3

Bernard: We should not invite Carl

EasyAgree/Disagree

Question 4

Principle: It is unethical for someone

EasyPrinciple-Strengthen

Question 5

Taylorism, the early-twentieth-century industrial

EasyPrinciple-Conform

Question 6

Winchester Township cannot afford to keep

EasyWeaken

Question 7

News report: Some recently invented

MediumMust be True

Question 8

Anthropologist: For early humans who

MediumRole

Question 9

Most lawyers hold that violations

EasyFlaw

Question 10

Journalist: Contrary to popular opinion

EasyStrengthen

Question 11

Biologist: The evolutionary advantage

HardRole

Question 12

Columnist: Vagrancy laws are supposed

HardFlaw

Question 13

Political theorist: The purpose of

EasyNecessary Assumption

Question 14

Food critic: One of the chief

HardFlaw

Question 15

Ants sometimes live in hollow places

EasyWeaken

Question 16

Future overall demand for professors

MediumPrinciple-Conform

Question 17

Anarchist: People can either fight

MediumFlaw

Question 18

Consumer demand for personal computers

HardParadox

Question 19

If a film is accepted by

HardParallel Flaw

Question 20

Psychologist: In an experiment

HardNecessary Assumption

Question 21

Orator: Moral excellence can be

HardMust be True

Question 22

Philosopher: Philosophers usually treat

HardRole

Question 23

Superstring theory is a controversial

HardMost Supported

Question 24

A smaller number of short

HardParallel

Question 25

To test the claim that

HardWeaken