If all of the statements in the passage above are true which one of the following statements must also be true?
(A) Reasonable people and unreasonable people are incompatible.
(B) If there are only reasonable people there cannot be progress.
(C) If there are unreasonable people there will be progress.
(D) Some unreasonable people are unable to bring about progress.
(E) Unreasonable people are more persistent than reasonable people.
9.Theater critic: The theater is in a dismal state.
Audiences are and revenue is down. Without the audience and the revenue the talented and creative people who are the lifeblood of the theater are abandoning it. No wonder standards are deteriorating.
Producer: It's not true that the theater is in decline.
Don't you realize that your comments constitute a self-fulfilling prophecy? By publishing these opinions, you yourself are discouraging new audiences from emerging and new talent from joining the theater.
Which one of the following is a questionable technique employed by the produce in responding to the critic?
(A) focusing on the effects of the critie's evaluation rather than on its content
(B) accusing the critic of relying solely on opinion unsupported by factual evidence
(C) challenging the motives behind the critle's remarks rather than the remarks themselves
(D) relying on emphasis rather than on argument
(E) invoking authority in order to intimidate the critic
10. Michelangelo's sixteenth-century Sistine Chapel paintings are currently being restored. A goal of the restorers is to uncover Michelangelo's original work, and so additions made to Michelangelo's paintings by later artists are being removed. However, the restorers have decided to make one exception: to leave intact additions that were painted by da Volterra.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to reconcile the restorers' decision with the goal stated in the passage?
(A) The restorers believe that da Volterra stripped away all previous layers of paint before he painted his own additions to the Sistine Chapel.
(B) Because da Volterra used a type of pigment that is especially sensitive to light, the additions to the Sistine Chapel that ad Volterra painted have relatively muted colors.
(C) Da Volterra's additions were painted in a style that was similar to the style used by Michelangelo.
(D) Michelangelo is famous primarily for his sculptures and only secondarily for his paintings, whereas da Volterra is known exclusively for his paintings.
(E) Da Volterra's work is considered by certain art historians to be just as valuable as the work of additions to Michelangelo's work.
11. A controversial program rewards prison inmates who behave particularly well in prison by giving them the chance to receive free cosmetic plastic surgery performed by medical students. The program is obviously morally questionable, both in its assumptions about what inmates might want and in its use of the prison population to train future surgeons. Putting these moral issues aside however the surgery clearly has a powerful rehabilitative effect as is shown by the fact that, among recipients of the surgery the proportion who are convicted of new crimes committed after release is only half that for the prison population as a whole.
A flaw in the reasoning of the passage is that it
(A) allows moral issues to be a consideration in presenting evidence about matters of fact
(B) dismisses moral considerations on the grounds that only matters of fact are relevant