LSAT 104 – Section 4 – Question 23

LSAT 104 - Section 4 - Question 23

December 1998

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT104 S4 Q23
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Value Judgment +ValJudg
A
3%
163
B
0%
158
C
2%
159
D
3%
163
E
92%
169
132
143
154
 +Medium 147.438 +SubsectionMedium

Much of today’s literature is inferior: most of our authors are intellectually and emotionally inexperienced, and their works lack both the intricacy and the focus on the significant that characterize good literature. However, Hypatia’s latest novel is promising; it shows a maturity, complexity, and grace that far exceeds that of her earlier works.

Summary

Much of today’s literature is inferior. Most authors today are intellectually and emotionally inexperienced. Most authors’ works today lack intricacy and a focus on the significant. Good literature is characterized by intricacy and a focus on the significant. Hypatia’s most recent novel shows grace, complexity, and maturity exceeding her earlier works, and is therefore promising.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Hypatia’s most recent work contains a property of good literature to a greater degree than her earlier works.

A
Much of today’s literature focuses less on the significant than Hypatia’s latest novel focuses on the significant.

This is unsupported because the stimulus doesn’t tell us how much Hypatia’s latest novel focuses on the significant.

B
Much of today’s literature at least lacks the property of grace.

This is unsupported; while we know that much of today’s literature lacks the properties of good literature, grace is not identified as one of those properties.

C
Hypatia’s latest novel is good literature when judged by today’s standards.

This is unsupported because a focus on the significant is identified as one of the properties of good literature, and we don’t know if Hypatia’s latest novel focuses on the significant.

D
Hypatia’s latest novel is clearly better than the majority of today’s literature.

This is unsupported because we don’t know how much Hypatia’s novel focuses on the significant. We cannot conclude that the novel’s complexity alone makes it better than most literature today.

E
Hypatia’s latest novel has at least one property of good literature to a greater degree than her earlier works.

This is strongly supported because we know that Hypatia’s novel has more complexity than her earlier works. Complexity here is taken to be synonymous with intricacy, meaning her recent work has a property of good literature.

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