LSAT 149 – Section 3 – Question 12

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PT149 S3 Q12
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Must be false +MBF
A
16%
162
B
6%
156
C
17%
161
D
53%
165
E
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148
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In a scene in an ancient Greek play, Knights, the character Demosthenes opens a writing tablet on which an oracle had written a prophecy, and while looking at the tablet, he continuously expresses his amazement at its contents. His companion presses him for information, whereupon Demosthenes explains what the oracle had written.

Summary

In a scene in one ancient Greek play, a character (Demosthenes) opens a tablet and expresses amazement at what was written on it.

Demosthenes’s companion requests information in response to his reaction.

Demosthenes explains to his companion what was written on the tablet.

Notable Valid Inferences

In this scene, Demosthenes did not read the prophecy out loud.

A
In ancient Greek plays, characters are presumed to know how to read unless their illiteracy is specifically mentioned.

This could be true. We only know what happened in one specific scene in one play. Further, neither character’s illiteracy is specifically mentioned, so according to (A), both characters would be presumed to know how to read. This presumption isn’t rejected by the stimulus.

B
The character of Demosthenes in Knights is not based on a historical figure.

This could be true. We have no information to support or reject this claim.

C
In ancient Greek plays, the reading aloud of written texts commonly occurred as part of the on-stage action.

This could be true. We only have information about one scene in one play where something was read silently; we don’t know whether or not reading out loud occurred commonly.

D
In ancient Greece, people did not read silently to themselves.

The stimulus provides evidence against this. We can reject the claim in (D) because the stimulus provides an indication that someone read silently. (D) says that reading silently never happened, and the stimulus provides an example of it happening, so the stimulus rejects (D).

E
Only rarely in ancient Greece were prophecies written down on writing tablets.

This could be true. We only know what happened in this scene in this one play; we don’t know how commonly prophecies were written down in ancient Greece. We don’t have the information to reject this claim.

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