LR Question Types

Question 1

Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

Answer 1

Strengthen

Question 2

Which one of the following, if true, most strongly supports the conservationist’s argument?

Answer 2

Strengthen

Question 3

Which one of the following, if true, most calls into question the view above?

Answer 3

Weaken

Question 4

The answer to which one of the following questions would most help in evaluating the argument?

Answer 4

Crux

Question 5

Which one of the following would be most useful to know in order to evaluate the argument?

Answer 5

Crux

Question 6

Which one of the following, if assumed, would allow the conclusion above to be properly drawn?

Answer 6

Sufficient

Question 7

The conclusion of the argument follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Answer 7

Sufficient

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Necessary

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Necessary

Question 10

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to reconcile the medical specialists’ two claims?

Answer 10

Resolve

Question 11

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the statistical claim above?

Answer 11

Explain

Question 12

Which one of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the behavior of the vervet monkeys described above?

Answer 12

Explain

Question 13

If Murray and Jane are both sincere in what they say, then it can be properly concluded that they agree that…

Answer 13

Agree

Question 14

The reasoning in the passage is most similar to that in which one of the following?

Answer 14

Parallel

Question 15

Which one of the following most accurately describes an error in the argument’s reasoning?

Answer 15

Flaw

Question 16

The editorial’s argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Answer 16

Flaw

Question 17

Which one of the following most accurately describes the method of reasoning?

Answer 17

Describe

Question 18

The argument proceeds by employing which one of the following approaches?

Answer 18

Describe

Question 19

Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the passage by the claim that nonmarine animals have scales?

Answer 19

Role

Question 20

The assertion that insects do not literally breathe figures in the argument in which one of the following ways?

Answer 20

Role

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Main Point

Question 22

If the statements above are true, then each of the following could be true EXCEPT:

Answer 22

MBF

Question 23

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

Answer 23

~MBT

Question 24

Which one of the following is best illustrated by the information above?

Answer 24

~MBT

Question 25

Which one of the following follows logically from the example above?

Answer 25

MBT

Question 26

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the information above?

Answer 26

MBT

Question 27

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy described above?

Answer 27

Resolve

Question 28

Each of the following, if true, helps to resolve the survey's apparently paradoxical results EXCEPT

Answer 28

Resolve

Question 29

Which one of the following is an assumption the argument requires?

Answer 29

Necessary

Question 30

The sociologist's argument requires the assumption that...

Answer 30

Necessary

Question 31

The argument depends on the assumption that...

Answer 31

Necessary

Question 32

The argument above depends on assuming which one of the following?

Answer 32

Necessary

Question 33

Trent's argument assumes that...

Answer 33

Necessary

Question 34

Which one of the following principles must be assumed in order for the psychologist's conclusion to be properly drawn?

Answer 34

Necessary

Question 35

The expert's argument depends on assuming which one of the following?

Answer 35

Necessary

Question 36

If all of the statements in the passage are true, which one of the following must also be true?

Answer 36

MBT

Question 37

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables Chapin's conclusion to be properly drawn?

Answer 37

Sufficient

Question 38

The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Answer 38

Sufficient

Question 39

Assuming the truth of the passage, one can conclude from it that the number of adolescent boys with asthma is approximately equal to the number of adolescent girls with asthma, if one also knows that

Answer 39

Sufficient

Question 40

Atrens’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Answer 40

Sufficient

Question 41

The producer's conclusion is properly inferred if which one of the following is assumed?

Answer 41

Sufficient

Question 42

Which one of the following can be inferred from the passage?

Answer 42

MBT

Question 43

Which one of the following most logically completes the argument?

Answer 43

~MBT

Question 44

If the statements in the passage are correct, which one of the following can be properly concluded from them?

Answer 44

MBT

Question 45

Which one of the following can most reasonably be concluded on the basis of the information above?

Answer 45

~MBT

Question 46

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the statements above?

Answer 46

MBT

Question 47

Which one of the following judgments most closely conforms to the principles stated above?

Answer 47

~MBT

Question 48

The conclusion of the argument follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Answer 48

Sufficient

Question 49

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the literary critic's argument?

Answer 49

Necessary

Question 50

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most strongly supports the researcher’s reasoning?

Answer 50

Strengthen

Question 51

Which one of the following, if true, would account for the statistic above without supporting the author's conclusion?

Answer 51

Weaken

Question 52

The new theory assumes that...

Answer 52

Necessary

Question 53

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the principle underlying the argument?

Answer 53

Strengthen

Question 54

The reasoning in the argument most closely conforms to which one of the following principles?

Answer 54

Strengthen

Question 55

Which one of the following, if true, argues most strongly for the inclusion of the antidilution provision of the law?

Answer 55

Strengthen

Question 56

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the music critic's argument?

Answer 56

Strengthen

Question 57

Which one of the following, if it occurred, would be the strongest evidence favoring Ms. Fring's position over Mr. Blatt's position?

Answer 57

Strengthen

Question 58

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in the bus driver's argument?

Answer 58

Strengthen

Question 59

The parent's experience with the child most closely conforms to which one of the following generalizations?

Answer 59

Strengthen