section 3
time - 30 minutes
25 questions
1. the painter peter brandon never dated his works, and their chronology is only now beginning to take shape in the critical literature. a recent dating of a brandon self-portrait to 1930 is surely wrong. brandon was 63 years old in 1930, yet the painting shows a young, dark-haired man-obviously brandon, but clearly not a man of 63.
which of the following, if justifiably assumed, allows the conclusion to be properly drawn?
(a) there is no securely dated self-portrait of brandon that he painted when he was significantly younger than 63.
(b) in refraining from dating his works, brandon intended to steer critical discussion of them away from considerations of chronology.
(c) until recently, there was very little critical literature on the works of brandon.
(d) brandon at age 63 would not have portrayed himself in a painting as he had looked when he was a young man.
(e) brandon painted several self-portraits that showed him as a man past the age of 60.
2. dance critic from europe: the improved quality of ballet in the united states is the result of more europeans' teaching ballet in the united states than ever before. i know the proportion of teachers who were born and trained in europe has gone up among ballet teachers in the united states, BECause last year, on my trip to new york, more of the ballet teachers i met were from europe-born and trained there -than ever before.
which of the following identifies a questionable assumption made by the dance critic's reasoning?
(a) the argument overlooks the possibility that some ballet teachers in the united states could have been born in europe but trained in the united states.
(b) the argument assumes that the ballet teachers whom the critic met last year on the critic's trip to new york were a generally typical group of such teachers.
(c) the argument assumes that the teaching of ballet in the united states is superior to the teaching of ballet in europe
(d) other possible reasons for the improved mental attitudes of united states dancers are not examined.
(e) the argument assumes that dancers born and trained in europe are typically more talented than dancers born and trained in the united states.

questions 3-8
a volunteer who sends packages to hospital patients is preparing three packages containing exactly five items each from a supply of eighteen available items-four games, six jigsaw puzzles, and eight novels. the packages must conform to the following.
conditions:
the three packages together contain all of the novels.
each package contains at least one jigsaw puzzle. no package contains more games than novels.
3. which of the following can be a complete and accurate list of the contents of one of the packages?
(a) five jigsaw puzzles
(b) one game. four novels
(c) one jigsaw puzzle, four novels
(d)two games, two jigsaw puzzles, two novels
(e) three games, one jigsaw puzzle, one novel
4. if the first two packages contain exactly two games each, then the third package must contain exactly
(a) one jigsaw puzzle and four novels
(b) two jigsaw puzzles and three novels
(c) four jigsaw puzzles and one novel
(d) one game, one jigsaw puzzle, and three novels
(e) two games, one jigsaw puzzle and two novels
5. if one of the packages contains exactly three jigsaw puzzles and none of the packages contains more than three novels, which of the following must be true?
(a) the package that contains three jigsaw puzzles also contains exactly one game.
(b) one of the two packages that do not contain three jigsaw puzzles contains exactly two games.
(c) one of the two packages that do not contain three jigsaw puzzles contains exactly two jigsaw puzzles.
(d) each of the two packages that do not contain three jigsaw puzzles contains exactly one game.
(e) each of the two packages that do not contain three jigsaw puzzles contains exactly three novels.
6. if the first two packages contain exactly two jigsaw puzzles each, which of the following can be a complete and accurate list of the contents of the third package?
(a) one game, four novels
(b) two games, three novels
(c) two jigsaw puzzles, three novels
(d) one game, three jigsaw puzzles, one novel
(e) two games, two jigsaw puzzles, one novel
7. if each of the packages contains at least one game, then it must be true that one of the package contains exactly
(a) two games
(b) two jigsaw puzzles
(c) one novel
(d) two novels
(e) four novels
8. if each of the packages contains a different number of novels from the others, which of the following can be true?
(a) there are exactly three games among the items in one of the packages.
(b) there are exactly two jigsaw puzzles among the items in one of the packages.
(d) there are exactly four games among the items in the three packages together.
(e) there are exactly four jigsaw puzzles among the items in the three packages together.
9.mayor four years ago when we reorganized the city police department in order to save money, critics claimed that the reorganization would make the police less responsive to citizens and would thus lead to more crime. the police have compiled theft statistics from the years following the reorganization that show that the critics were wrong. there was an overall decrease in reports of thefts of all kinds, including small thefts.
which of the following, if true, most seriously challenges the mayor's argument?
(a) when city police are perceived as unresponsive, victims of theft are less likely to report thefts to the police.
(b) the mayor's critics generally agree that police statistics concerning crime reports provide the most reliable available data on crime rates.
(c) in other cities where police departments have been similarly reorganized, the numbers of reported thefts have generally risen following reorganization.
(d) the mayor's reorganization of the police department failed to save as much money as it was intended to save.
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