PT155.S4.Q17

PrepTest 155 - Section 4 - Question 17

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Legislator: University humanities departments bring in less tuition and grant money than science departments. ███ ███████ ████████ ███ ████████ ████ █████████████ ████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████████ ███████████ █████ ██ ████ █████ ████ ████ █████ █████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ ████████████ ██ █ ███████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████████████████ ████ ██████████ ███████████ ████████ ██ ███████ ████████████ ██████████ ███████████ ████████ █████████ ███████ ████████████ █████ ██ ██ █ ███████ ███ ████████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███████████ ████ ██████ ██████ ███████████

Summarize Argument

The Legislator concludes that it is a mistake for universities to cut humanities departments when facing budget shortfalls for several reasons:

Teaching and research in the humanities costs less
(Sub-conclusion) So Humanities departments bring in more money than they spend
(Sub-conclusion) So Humanities departments subsidize science departments

Identify Argument Part

The claim in the first part of the second sentence is a premise offered in support of a sub-conclusion, which is offered as support for the Legislator’s main conclusion.

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17.

Which one of the following ████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ████████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ████████ ███ ████████ ████ █████████████ ████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████ ██ ███ █████████

a

It is offered ██ ███████ ███ ███ ████████ ██ ██ ███████ ███████████

There is no support offered for the stereotype in the third sentence.

2%
b

It is an ███████ ██████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███████ ███████████

The claim is not a stereotype and the claim is not rejected by the Legislator.

1%
c

It is put ███████ ██ █ █████████ ██ ██ ███████████ ███ █ ███████ ██ ███ █████████

The claim is used as support for a sub-conclusion of the argument which is used to support the Legislator’s main conclusion.

81%
d

It is an ████████████ ██████████ ████ █████ ███ ██████████ ███████ ██████████ ██ █████████

The claim is used as support for a sub-conclusion of the argument. The claim itself is not a sub-conclusion.

5%
e

It is one ██ ████ ██████ ████ █████████ ██ ███████████ ███████ ███ ███ ██████████ ███████ ███████████

The claim is not independent support for the Legislator’s main conclusion.

10%

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