PT108.S2.Q12

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PrepTest 108 - Section 2 - Question 12

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Undoubtedly, Conclusion one's freedom is always worth the risk of losing one's life. ████████ █ ██████ ███ ██ ██████ ██ █ ████ ██████ ████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ █████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that a person’s freedom is always worth the risk of losing their life, citing an example of someone locked in a room with no hope of escape and who, as a result, has nothing to lose.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The author uses an example of someone locked in an inescapable cement room with nothing to lose to support the conclusion that one’s freedom is always worth the risk of losing one’s life. However, the argument’s reasoning is flawed because the author’s specific, extreme example doesn’t necessarily justify the generalized statement that one’s freedom is always, in all cases, worth the risk of losing one’s life.

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The author doesn’t presume this. She argues that one’s freedom is always worth the risk of losing one’s life, but she never says that nothing is more valuable than freedom. The author may believe that many things are more valuable than freedom.

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The author doesn’t state or imply that she thinks it’s always possible to rebel physically against an encroachment on one’s freedom, and her stance on this issue is irrelevant to the soundness of her conclusion.

generalizes inappropriately from █ ██████ ███████ ████ ██ █ █████████ █████

This is the flaw that the author commits. Using a single, extreme example of someone locked in a cement room, the author then makes a universal claim that one’s freedom is always more valuable than the risk of losing one’s life. The example doesn’t necessarily justify the claim.

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The author’s argument isn’t concerned with the freedom of others. The author’s argument is only concerned with one’s own freedom and life.

overlooks the possibility ████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ███████

We don’t know if the author overlooks this. However, even if she does, it has no bearing on whether her conclusion, that one’s freedom is always more valuable than the risk of losing one’s life, is valid.

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84% of people who answer get this correct

This is a moderately difficult question.

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Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 127

142

75% 157

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Flaw or descriptive weakening

Stems that ask us to articulate a flaw in the stimulus' argument, either in abstract terms or by pointing out a weakness. Learn more.

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