LSAT PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A
LOGICAL REASONING: (B) Only organisms that have nervous systems
can experience pain.
IDENTIFY THE CENTRAL ASSUMPTION: (C) Any organism that has a nervous system can
experience pain.
Linsey has been judged to be a bad songwriter (D) Only organisms that can experience pain can
simply because her lyrics typically are disjointed be mistreated.
and subjective. This judgment is ill founded, (E) Any organism that has a nervous system can
however, since the writings of many modern be mistreated. - ANSWER -(D) Only
novelists typically are disjointed and subjective organisms that can experience pain can be
and yet these novelists are widely held to be mistreated.
good writers.
Which one of the following is an ASSUMPTION LOGICAL REASONING:
on which the argument depends?
IDENTIFYING CENTRAL ASSUMPTION
(A) Disjointed and subjective writing has a
comparable effect in modern novels and in All material bodies are divisible into parts, and
songs. everything divisible is imperfect. It follows rgar
(B) Some readers do not appreciate the akk material bodies are imperfect.It likewise
subtleties of the disjointed and subjective style follows that the spirit is not a material body.
adopted by modern novelists.
(C) Song lyrics that are disjointed and subjective The final conclusion above follows logically if
have at least as much narrative structure as any which one of the following is assumed?
other song lyrics do.
(D) A disjointed and subjective style of writing is a) Everything divisible is a material body.
usually more suitable for novels and song lyrics b) Nothing imperfect is indivisible.
than it is for any other written works. c) The spirit is divisible.
(E) The quality of Linsey's - ANSWER -(A) d) The spirit is perfect.
Disjointed and subjective writing has a e) The spirit is either indivisible or imperfect. -
comparable effect in modern novels and in ANSWER -d) The spirit is perfect.
songs.
LOGICAL REASONING:
LOGICAL REASONING:
IDENTIFYING CENTRAL ASSUMPTION
IDENTIFYING CENTRAL ASSUMPTION
No chordates are tracheophytes, and all
Obviously, we cannot in any real sense mistreat members of Pteropsida are tracheophytes. So no
plants. Plants do not have nervous systems, and members of Pteropsida belong to the family
having a nervous system is necessary to Hominidae.
experience pain.
The conclusion above follows logically if which The conclusion above follows logically if which
one of the following is assumed? one of the following is assumed?
(A) Any organism that can experience pain can (a) All members of the family Hominidae are
be mistreated. tracheophytes
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LOGICAL REASONING: (B) Only organisms that have nervous systems
can experience pain.
IDENTIFY THE CENTRAL ASSUMPTION: (C) Any organism that has a nervous system can
experience pain.
Linsey has been judged to be a bad songwriter (D) Only organisms that can experience pain can
simply because her lyrics typically are disjointed be mistreated.
and subjective. This judgment is ill founded, (E) Any organism that has a nervous system can
however, since the writings of many modern be mistreated. - ANSWER -(D) Only
novelists typically are disjointed and subjective organisms that can experience pain can be
and yet these novelists are widely held to be mistreated.
good writers.
Which one of the following is an ASSUMPTION LOGICAL REASONING:
on which the argument depends?
IDENTIFYING CENTRAL ASSUMPTION
(A) Disjointed and subjective writing has a
comparable effect in modern novels and in All material bodies are divisible into parts, and
songs. everything divisible is imperfect. It follows rgar
(B) Some readers do not appreciate the akk material bodies are imperfect.It likewise
subtleties of the disjointed and subjective style follows that the spirit is not a material body.
adopted by modern novelists.
(C) Song lyrics that are disjointed and subjective The final conclusion above follows logically if
have at least as much narrative structure as any which one of the following is assumed?
other song lyrics do.
(D) A disjointed and subjective style of writing is a) Everything divisible is a material body.
usually more suitable for novels and song lyrics b) Nothing imperfect is indivisible.
than it is for any other written works. c) The spirit is divisible.
(E) The quality of Linsey's - ANSWER -(A) d) The spirit is perfect.
Disjointed and subjective writing has a e) The spirit is either indivisible or imperfect. -
comparable effect in modern novels and in ANSWER -d) The spirit is perfect.
songs.
LOGICAL REASONING:
LOGICAL REASONING:
IDENTIFYING CENTRAL ASSUMPTION
IDENTIFYING CENTRAL ASSUMPTION
No chordates are tracheophytes, and all
Obviously, we cannot in any real sense mistreat members of Pteropsida are tracheophytes. So no
plants. Plants do not have nervous systems, and members of Pteropsida belong to the family
having a nervous system is necessary to Hominidae.
experience pain.
The conclusion above follows logically if which The conclusion above follows logically if which
one of the following is assumed? one of the following is assumed?
(A) Any organism that can experience pain can (a) All members of the family Hominidae are
be mistreated. tracheophytes
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