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Logical reasoning questions designed to test and improve critical thinking skills. Focuses on identifying assumptions, understanding wrong answers, applying the denial test, and enhancing logical analysis. Useful for students preparing for law school admission tests and other standardized tests. Practice questions with correct answers help develop analytical abilities and logical reasoning skills. A valuable resource for improving performance on logical reasoning sections of standardized tests. Questions challenge the reader's ability to think critically and logically. Suitable for students needing strong logical reasoning skills.
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Linsey has been judged to be a bad songwriter simply because her lyrics typically are disjointed and subjective. This judgment is ill founded, however,
since the writings of many modern novelists typically are disjointed and subjective and yet these novelists are widely held to be good writers. Which one of the following is an ASSUMPTION on which the argument depends? (A) Disjointed and subjective writing has a comparable effect in modern novels and in songs. (B) Some readers do not appreciate the subtleties of the disjointed and subjective style adopted by modern novelists. (C) Song lyrics that are disjointed and subjective have at least as much
Obviously, we cannot in any real sense mistreat plants. Plants do not have nervous systems, and having a nervous system is necessary to experience pain. The conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? (A) Any organism that can experience pain can be mistreated. (B) Only organisms that have nervous systems can experience pain. (C) Any organism that has a nervous system can experience pain. (D) Only organisms that can experience pain can be mistreated.
(E) Any organism that has a nervous system can be mistreated. - answer (D) Only organisms that can experience pain can be mistreated. LOGICAL REASONING: IDENTIFYING CENTRAL ASSUMPTION All material bodies are divisible into parts, and everything divisible is imperfect. It follows rgar akk material bodies are imperfect.It likewise follows that the spirit is not a material body.
No chordates are tracheophytes, and all members of Pteropsida are tracheophytes. So no members of Pteropsida belong to the family Hominidae. The conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? (a) All members of the family Hominidae are tracheophytes (b) All members of the family Hominidae are chordates (c) All tracheophytes are members of Pteropsida
(d) No members of the family Hominidae are chordates (e) No chordates are members of Pteropsida - answer (b) All members of the family Hominidae are chordates LOGICAL REASONING: WRONG CHOICE ANSWERS Historian: The spread of literacy informs more people of injustices and, in the right circumstances, leads to increased capacity to distinguish true reformers from mere opportunists. However, widespread literacy invariably emerges
B. Without literacy there can be no general awareness of the injustice in a society. C. Any comprehensive system of general education will t - answer D. A lack of general education affects the ability to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate calls for reform. LOGICAL REASONING: WRONG CHOICE ANSWERS
Art historian: Great works of art have often elicited outrage when first presented; in Europe, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompted a riot, and Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe elicited outrage and derision. So, since it is clear that art is often shocking, we should not hesitate to use public funds for supporting works of art that many people find shocking. Which of the following is an assumption, that is required for the Art historian to draw his conclusion properly?
Which of the following is an assumption, required by the argument? - answer Exercising the muscles on opposite sides of the spine unequally tends to lead to unbalanced muscle development We ought to pay attention only to the intrinsic properties of a work of art. Its other, extrinsic properties are irrelevant to our aesthetic interactions with it. For example, when we look at a painting we should consider only what is directly presented in our experience of it. What is really aesthetically relevant, therefore, is not what a painting symbolizes, but what it directly presents to experience.
The conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is added to the premises? (A) What an artwork symbolizes involves only extrinsic properties of that work. (B) There are certain properties of our experiences of artworks that can be distinguished as symbolic properties. (C) Only an artwork's intrinsic properties are relevant to our aesthetic interactions with it.
was taken over by sheep farming decades ago, resulting in the animal's systematic elimination from the area. Since then naturalists working in the region have discovered no hard evidence of its survival, such as carcasses or tracks. In spite of alleged sightings of the animal, the Tasmanian tiger no longer exists. Which one of the following is an assumption on which the naturalist's argument depends? A) Sheep farming drove the last Tasmanian tigers to starvation by chasing them from their natural habitat.
B)Some scavengers in Tasmania are capable of destroying tiger carcasses without a trace. C)Every naturalist working in the Tasmanian tiger's natural habitat has looked systematically for evidence of the tiger's survival. D)The Tasmanian tiger did not move and a - answer D)The Tasmanian tiger did not move and adapt to a different region in response to the loss of habitat. LOGICAL REASONING:
(A) More than one or two airplanes were scheduled for the nine canceled flights. (B) Swift Airlines has fewer mechanical problems than do other airlines of the same size. (C) Each of the canceled flights would have been longer than the average flight on Swift Airlines. (D) Swift Airlines had never before canceled more than one or two scheduled flights on a single day. (E) All of the airplanes scheduled for the canceled flights are base - answer (A) More than one or two airplanes were scheduled for the nine canceled flights.
