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PT151.S4.Q1

SECTION 1 · rc

PASSAGE 1
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PASSAGE 4
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PrepTest 151 - Section 4 - Question 1

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Joe: Conclusion All vampire stories are based on an absurd set of premises. ██████ █████████ ██ ████ ████████ █████ ██████ ██ █ ███████ ███████ █ ████████ ███ ████████ ████ ███████ █████ ███████ █████ ███ ███ █████████ ████████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ██████ ██████████ ██████████ █████ █████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Joe argues that all vampire stories are based on absurd premises. Why are these premises absurd? Because if they were true, vampires would have almost driven their prey (humans) to extinction. Joe supports this by explaining that in vampire stories, all victims of vampires become vampires. Also, vampires are ancient and immortal. These premises imply that vampires would have replaced humans over time, meaning they would have no more prey.

Speaker 2 Summary

Maria doesn’t make an argument, instead just stating that she has encountered vampire stories where most victims of vampires die, and only a few become vampires. This conflicts with Joe’s claim that in vampire stories, all victims become vampires.

Objective

We need to find a disagreement. Joe and Maria disagree about whether all victims of vampires become vampires.

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Joe and Maria disagree over ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

Vampires are always ████████ ██ ███████ ███████ ██ █████████

Like (B), Joe agrees with this, but Maria never states an opinion. Maria only talks about whether vampires’ victims always become vampires, not about whether vampires are immortal.

Vampires are always ████████ ██ ███████ ███████ ██ ██████ ███████ █████ ███████ ██████

Like (A), Joe agrees with this, but Maria doesn’t take a position. Maria’s focus is on what happens to vampires’ victims, not the traits of vampires themselves.

No vampire stories ███ ███████████

Joe disagrees with this, but Maria doesn’t express an opinion. Joe concludes that all vampire stories are “absurd,” or in other words, incoherent. Maria doesn’t make any overall claims about vampire stories, just about the single aspect of what happens to victims of vampires.

No vampire stories ██████ ███ ███████ ██████████ ██ █████ ████ ██████

Neither speaker agrees or disagrees with this claim. Neither Joe nor Maria talks about the vampire population sizes depicted in vampire stories.

In all vampire ████████ █████ ██████ ██ █ ███████ ███████ █ ████████

Joe agrees with this but Maria disagrees, so this is the point of disagreement. Joe explicitly states this claim as a premise. Maria says that in some vampire stories, not all victims become vampires, which necessitates disagreeing with this claim.

Difficulty

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98% of people who answer get this correct

This is a low-difficulty question.

CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 120

120

75% 120

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: disagree

Stems that ask us to identify a statement to which one speaker in the stimulus would say "Yes" and the other would say "No"

Stimulus Tags

Conditional reasoning

Stimuli that feature conditional and set logic (e.g. A → B, A is true, therefore B is true).

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