LR Question Stems

Question 1

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the argument?

Answer 1

Main Point

Question 2

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the editorialist’s argument?

Answer 2

Main Point

Question 3

Which one of the following best expresses the main point of the argument?

Answer 3

Main Point

Question 4

The point of Travers’s rejoinder to Dillworth’s argument is that

Answer 4

Main Point

Question 5

In the argument, the statement that many comic scenes in Mozart’s operas open with violin phrases that sound like the squeaking of changing scenery is offered in support of the claim that 


Answer 5

Main Point

Question 6

The overall conclusion of the historian’s argument is that

Answer 6

Main Point

Question 7

The claim that foreign capital funneled into the economy would cause inflation plays which one of the following roles in the government official’s argument?

Answer 7

Role of Statement

Question 8

The claim that bureaucratic mechanisms are engineered to resist change plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

Answer 8

Role of Statement

Question 9

The claim that ambiguity inspires interpretation figures in the argument in which one of the following ways?

Answer 9

Role of Statement

Question 10

The claim that cloning will not produce adults with identical personalities plays which one of the following roles in the geneticist’s argument?

Answer 10

Role of Statement

Question 11

The statistics cited function in the argument to

Answer 11

Role of Statement

Question 12

The assertion that a later artist tampered with Veronese’s painting serves which one of the following functions in the curator’s argument?

Answer 12

Role of Statement

Question 13

Yvette responds to Xavier by

Answer 13

Method of Argument

Question 14

Carla does which one of the following in disputing Mark’s position?

Answer 14

Method of Argument

Question 15

Aiesha responds to Adam’s argument by

Answer 15

Method of Argument

Question 16

Ruth uses which one of the following argumentative techniques in countering Joanna’s argument?

Answer 16

Method of Argument

Question 17

The argument criticizing the newspaper article employs which one of the following strategies?

Answer 17

Method of Argument

Question 18

The linguist’s argument proceeds by

Answer 18

Method of Argument

Question 19

Which one of the following is a technique of reasoning used in the argument?

Answer 19

Method of Argument

Question 20

The argument derives its conclusion by

Answer 20

Method of Argument

Question 21

The argument in the passage proceeds by doing which one of the following?

Answer 21

Method of Argument

Question 22

The argument seeks to do which one of the following?

Answer 22

Method of Argument

Question 23

The journalist argues by

Answer 23

Method of Argument

Question 24

Which one of the following exhibits flawed reasoning most nearly parallel to that exhibited in the argument above?

Answer 24

Parallel/Parallel Flaw

Question 25

Which one of the following is most similar in its reasoning to the argument above?

Answer 25

Parallel/Parallel Flaw

Question 26

The flawed pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the following?

Answer 26

Parallel/Parallel Flaw

Question 27

Which one of the following contains questionable reasoning that is most similar to that in the argument above?

Answer 27

Parallel/Parallel Flaw

Question 28

Which one of the following decisions is based on flawed reasoning that is most similar to the worker’s flawed reasoning?

Answer 28

Parallel/Parallel Flaw

Question 29

Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its reasoning to the argument above?

Answer 29

Parallel/Parallel Flaw

Question 30

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the researcher’s argument?

Answer 30

Necessary Assumption

Question 31

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

Answer 31

Necessary Assumption

Question 32

Which of the following is an assumption made by the author?

Answer 32

Necessary Assumption

Question 33

Which one of the following is an assumption that the argument above makes?

Answer 33

Necessary Assumption

Question 34

An assumption made in the argument is that there are no

Answer 34

Necessary Assumption

Question 35

The reason given for the structure of the Security Council assumes that

Answer 35

Necessary Assumption

Question 36

Which one of the following must the television station assume in order to conclude that the plan will meet it’s stated purpose?

Answer 36

Necessary Assumption

Question 37

Which one of the following is an assumption that would allow the conclusion above to be properly drawn? 


Answer 37

Sufficient Assumption

Question 38

The test results would provide the proof that the manufacturer claims they do if which one of the following is assumed?

Answer 38

Sufficient Assumption

Question 39

Which of the following enables the conclusion above to follow logically?

Answer 39

Sufficient Assumption

Question 40

Which one of the following is a reasoning error made in the argument?

Answer 40

Flaw

Question 41

Which one of the following is a flaw in the broadcaster’s defense of the radio station’s practice?

Answer 41

Flaw

Question 42

The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument

Answer 42

Flaw

Question 43

The author of the book review commits which one of the following reasoning errors?

Answer 43

Flaw

Question 44

Sid’s argument is questionable in that it

Answer 44

Flaw

Question 45

The inference drawn above is unwarranted because 


Answer 45

Flaw

Question 46

The attorney’s argument is fallacious because it reasons that

Answer 46

Flaw

Question 47

The argument is most vulnerable to the criticism that it

Answer 47

Flaw

Question 48

Which one of the following is the logically strongest counter that Joe can make?

Answer 48

Strengthen/Weaken

Question 49

Which one of the following, if true, would cast the most doubt on the argument above?

Answer 49

Strengthen/Weaken

Question 50

Which one of the following statements, if added to the argument, most helps to justify its conclusion?

Answer 50

Strengthen/Weaken

Question 51

Which one of the following, if true, most strongly indicates that current enforcement of automobile- emission standards might be ineffective in controlling overall pollutant levels?

Answer 51

Strengthen/Weaken

Question 52

Which one of the following, if true, would most call into question the analysts’ explanation of the price increase?

Answer 52

Strengthen/Weaken

Question 53

The statements above, if true, most support which one of the following?

Answer 53

Inference

Question 54

If all of the statements above are true, which one of the following CANNOT be true?

Answer 54

Inference

Question 55

Which one of the following inferences is most strongly supported by the rules described above?

Answer 55

Inference

Question 56

Which one of the following most logically completes the passage?

Answer 56

Inference

Question 57

Each of the following is supported by the information above EXCEPT:

Answer 57

Inference

Question 58

If the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true on the basis of them?

Answer 58

Inference

Question 59

The passage above best supports which one of the following conclusions about people who diet to lose weight?

Answer 59

Inference

Question 60

On the basis of their statements, Ilana and Gustav are committed to disagreeing over whether

Answer 60

Point at Issue

Question 61

Antonio and Marla disagree over 


Answer 61

Point at Issue

Question 62

The point at issue between Aaron and Belinda is whether

Answer 62

Point at Issue

Question 63

Azadeh’s and Ben’s statements provide the most support for holding that they disagree about whether

Answer 63

Point at Issue

Question 64

The main issue in dispute between Francis and Sharon is

Answer 64

Point at Issue

Question 65

Which of the following propositions conforms to the statements above?

Answer 65

ID Principle

Question 66

Which of the following generalizations conforms to the situation above?

Answer 66

ID Principle

Question 67

Which one of the following propositions is best illustrated by the passage? 


Answer 67

ID Principle

Question 68

The information above conforms most closely to which one of the following principles?

Answer 68

ID Principle

Question 69

The reasoning above conforms most closely to which one of the following propositions?

Answer 69

Principle-Assumption

Question 70

The reasoning above conforms most closely to which one of the following propositions?

Answer 70

Principle-Assumption

Question 71

Mr. Smith’s daughter’s decision conforms to which one of the following principles?

Answer 71

Principle-Assumption

Question 72

Which of the following best expresses the principle that underlies the argument above?

Answer 72

Principle-Assumption

Question 73

Which one of the following principles, if established, provides a basis for the advocate’s argument?

Answer 73

Principle-Strengthen

Question 74

Which one of the following principles, if valid, justifies the archaeologist’s argument?

Answer 74

Principle-Strengthen

Question 75

Which one of the following principles, if established, provides the strongest justification for the department chair’s refusal, on the ground she gives, to sign the protest letter?

Answer 75

Principle-Strengthen

Question 76

Which one of the following, if true, most justifies the stated application of the principle?

Answer 76

Principle-Strengthen

Question 77

Which one of the following judgments most closely conforms to the principle cited above?

Answer 77

Apply Principle

Question 78

Which one of the following is an application of the politician’s principle of taxation?

Answer 78

Apply Principle

Question 79

The principle above, if valid, most justifies which one of the following judgments?

Answer 79

Apply Principle

Question 80

Which one of the following best illustrates the principle illustrated by the argument above?

Answer 80

Parallel Principle

Question 81

Of the following, which one illustrates a principle that is most similar to the principle illustrated by the passage?

Answer 81

Parallel Principle

Question 82

Which one of the following, if true, does the most to reconcile the apparent conflict in the moral system described above? 


Answer 82

Paradox

Question 83

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the difference in the ages of the cedars on cliff faces and those in forests?

Answer 83

Paradox

Question 84

Each of the following, if true, helps to resolve the apparent conflict in the passage EXCEPT:

Answer 84

Paradox

Question 85

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain why raisins contain more iron per calorie than do grapes?

Answer 85

Paradox

Question 86

Each of the following, if true, could explain the decrease described above EXCEPT: 


Answer 86

Paradox

Question 87

Which one of the following provides a resolution to the apparent inconsistency described by the council member?

Answer 87

Paradox