PT120.S4.Q16

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PrepTest 120 - Section 4 - Question 16

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Logan: Support Newspapers have always focused on ephemeral matters while ignoring important societal changes. ███ ████ ███ █████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ███████ ███ ████████████ ███████████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Logan claims that old newspapers are useless to historians. Why are they useless? Because newspapers have only ever focused on minor matters, without paying any attention to larger changes in society. (Logan is also assuming that the only knowledge that’s useful to historians is about those larger changes in society.)

Speaker 2 Summary

Mendez’s argument is designed to support the idea that newspapers are useful to historians, although this is implied rather than stated. To lead to this conclusion, Mendez says that news stories and popular art are a good source of knowledge about people’s thoughts and feelings. (Mendez is assuming that this knowledge is useful to historians.)

Objective

We’re looking for a disagreement. Logan and Mendez disagree about whether historical newspapers are useful to historians.

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newspapers accurately report ███ ████ █████████ ███████ ██████ █████ ██ █ ███████

Logan disagrees with this, and Mendez never contradicts Logan’s position. If anything, Mendez seems to accept this claim, and instead focuses on other useful knowledge that newspapers can provide.

the study of ████████ ████ ██████ ███████ ██████████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ █████████ █████████

Neither speaker talks about what historians should investigate when studying previous eras. All we know is what Logan and Mendez think about newspapers’ usefulness. We can’t assume that that translates into concrete directions for historians to investigate or not.

popular art is ██ █████████ ██████ ██ ███████████ █████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████ ████ ███████ ███ ████

Mendez would agree with this, but Logan never mentions popular art. The only opinions we know from Logan are about newspapers, so we can’t say whether the speakers agree or disagree about art.

newspapers ought to █████ ████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████ ████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ████

Neither speaker makes any claim about what newspapers should do now or in the future. We can’t know if the speakers’ opinions about newspapers as a historical source have any bearing on their opinions about what modern newspapers should report on.

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Logan disagrees with this and Mendez agrees, so this is the point of disagreement. Logan states that newspapers are not useful to historians. Mendez, however, brings up a way that newspapers can be useful, supporting the implied conclusion that they are useful.

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