PT128.S2.Q15

PrepTest 128 - Section 2 - Question 15

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H. G. Wells's great dramatic novel . ███ ████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██ ███████ ███████ ██████ ███████ ██ █████ █████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ ████ ██████████████ ██ █████████████ ███████ ███████ ████ █████████ █████████ ████ █████ ████████ ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ███████ █████████ ██████████████████ ██████████ ████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ████████ ██ █████ ██████ ███ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███████████

Summary

The author concludes that it’s inappropriate to classify Wells’s book as sci-fi. He supports this by saying that it has something that great dramatic novels have and that sci-fi generally lacks.

Missing Connection

The author concludes that Wells’s book shouldn’t be classified as sci-fi, but his premise tells us nothing about how books should be classified. We know that the book is a great dramatic novel. We also know that it has a feature that sci-fi generally lacks. But why shouldn’t it be classified as sci-fi? Why can’t it be both a great dramatic novel and sci-fi?

To get from his premise to his conclusion, the author must either make the broad assumption that no great dramatic novel can also be sci-fi, or the more specific assumption that a book that has a feature that sci-fi generally lacks shouldn’t be classified as sci-fi.

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15.

The argument's conclusion follows logically ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████████

a

All novels that ███████ ██████████ ██████████ ███ █████ ████████ ███████

b

Novels can always ██ ███████ ██████████ ████ ████████ ███████

c

A work of ███████ ███████ ██████ ███████ █████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ██████████ ███████████

d

The most important ███████████ ██ █ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████

e

A dramatic novel ██████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████ ████████

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