PT122.S2.Q1

SECTION 1 · lr

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25

SECTION 2 · lr

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25 Question 26

SECTION 3 · rc

PASSAGE 1
Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6

PASSAGE 2
Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13

PASSAGE 3
Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20

PASSAGE 4
Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25 Question 26 Question 27

SECTION 4 · lr

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25

PrepTest 122 - Section 2 - Question 1

Question

Explanation

Analytics

Show analysis

Ilana: Support Carver's stories are somber and pessimistic, which is Support a sure sign of inferior writing. █ ████ █████ ████ █ ██████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████████

███████ ██████ ███ ███ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ██████ ████████ ███ ███████ ███ █████████████ ██ ██████████ ███ ██████████ ███ ████ ███ ████ █████ █████████ ██████████████ ███ ███████████ ███████████

Speaker 1 Summary

Iliana implies that Carver’s stories are poorly written. Why? Because somber and pessimistic writing is inferior, and Carver's stories are somber and pessimistic.

Speaker 2 Summary

Gustav argues that Carver was an excellent writer. Why? Because despite the somberness and pessimism, his stories are humorous, compassionate, and beautifully structured.

Objective

We need a statement that Ilana and Gustav disagree on. They disagree that a somber and pessimistic story can be well-written. Ilana thinks that these characteristics are indicative of inferior writing. Gustav thinks that despite these characteristics, Carver was a great writer.

Analysis by AlexandraNash

Show answer

On the basis of their ███████████ █████ ███ ██████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ███████

Carver's stories are █████ █████████████

Ilana does not express an opinion on this statement. All we know about Ilana's opinion is that she thinks Carver’s stories are somber and pessimistic.

Carver's stories are ███████████ ██ █████ ██████

Both speakers agree on this statement. Ilana thinks that Carver’s stories are somber and pessimistic. Gustav concedes that Carver’s stories have these characteristics.

stories that are █████████████ ██ ██████████ ███ █████████ ███ █████████████ ██ ██████ ████████

Ilana does not express an opinion on this statement. All we know about Ilana's opinion is that she thinks Carver’s stories are somber and pessimistic.

stories that are ████ ███████ ███ ██ ██████ ███ ███████████

Ilana and Gustav disagree on this statement. Ilana disagrees: she says that somber and pessimistic writing is inferior. Gustav agrees: he thinks that despite these characteristics, Carver was a great writer.

there are some ███████████████ ██ █ █████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████████ ███ █████████ █████

Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. We don’t know whether Ilana or Gustav think that certain traits are most important in determining a story's aesthetic value.

Difficulty

Question

95% of people who answer get this correct

This is a low-difficulty question.

CURVE

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

25% 122

133

75% 143

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: disagree

Stems that ask us to identify a statement to which one speaker in the stimulus would say "Yes" and the other would say "No"

Answer Popularity

Popularity Avg. score

150

153

156

95%

164

159

Question history

You don't have any history with this question.. yet!