Another reason I found (B) to be wrong was because the language is too general with critic's opinion on "a work". I don't feel the passage goes into detail about any of these critic's opinions on any outside works, except for on Mphahlele.

Haven't gotten a single question from this module right for parallel questions... strongly considering just skipping over these for the June LSAT and prioritizing brushing up on other things atp lol.

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Thank you 7sage gods!!! Although I honestly wish this section came way up at the beginning of beginning this course. I've been doing tons of practice questions and a few practice tests concurrently with learning. Never knew my process was so wrong and unhelpful! Good to know now.

This was a super weird question but I somehow got this right purely off of vibes. I didn't set the premises up at all like the teacher, honestly didn't even try bc I knew I wouldn't be able to get it.

Going off of previous question patterns for these super complex conditional questions, my thought process was:

1. The first conditional claim is explicit. The second sentence does not logically lead from the first, so I would assume that the correct answer would somehow bridge the gap between those two seemingly unrelated claims. So I crossed off A, B and E because they 1) didn't refer to both parts of the sentence in sentence 2, and 2) didn't bridge any gaps that I immediately saw.

2. I tried to look at C and D in its most basic conditional claim form. And then I saw that C incorrectly flipped the conditional claim that I first started out with from the first question:

determine soon -> AIA humans (as intelligent as)

C started off saying if AIA humans, then... That is not what logically leads from the conditional claim in the first sentence, so I was able to cross that out. Somehow got left with D.

Interesting how figuring out the confusing ass vibes of the LSAT really helps find some answers (def not always, but sometimes).

I had the hardest time choosing between C and E, and honestly the explanation given doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I think way I ruled out E, was because E seemed a lot less definitive in its rule -- Like yes, you can choose the people you want to associate with if doing so let's you live a more enjoyable life.

Versus, the wording in the stimulus and the correct answer C was a lot stronger-- you should NOT be denied that freedom to do so.

That was how I reasoned it in my head.

Side note, the way the incorrect answers are explained with the teacher say "Um... ooookay..." And then the explanation for why it's wrong still doesn't make sense to me makes me feel dumb every time LOL.