PT131.S3.Q2 > Question

SECTION 1 · lr

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25

SECTION 2 · lr

SECTION 3 · lr

SECTION 4 · rc

PASSAGE 1

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8

PASSAGE 2

Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15

PASSAGE 3

Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22

PASSAGE 4

Question 23 Question 24 Question 25 Question 26 Question 27

The department chair claims that a psychology textbook was chosen for purely academic reasons, despite coming with a large donation from the publisher. Her evidence is that the department’s textbook committee gave the textbook the highest rating.

The department chair assumes that the department’s textbook committee wasn’t affected by the donation. She also assumes that either no other textbook also received the highest rating, or else she would have to explain why this particular textbook was chosen over another textbook of comparable merit.

This refutes the assumption that the textbook committee's decision was truly neutral, thus undermining the claim of choosing the textbook for purely academic reasons.

This still doesn't tell us whether or how the donation influenced the decision to use the textbook, or whether the committee was biased, so it's not relevant to the argument.

This doesn't give us enough information to affect the argument. We still don't know whether this year's decision was for academic or financial reasons.

Does that mean that the committee was biased? Or did the chair and/or other members remain neutral in their decision? We don't know, which makes this irrelevant.

Regardless of the company's normal practices, they made a donation in this case. The claim that they usually don't do so makes no difference to the argument.

PrepTest 131 - Section 3 - Question 2

Difficulty

Analysis

Answer Popularity

Question history

Confirm action