SECTION III

Time-35 minutes

26 Questions

Directions: The questions in this section are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions, More than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, You are to choose the best answer; that is the response that most accurately and completely answers the questions. You should not make assumptions that are by commonsense standards implausible, superfluous. or incompatible with the passage. After you have chosen the best answer; blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet.

Questions1-2

Those who support the continued reading and performance of Shakespeare's plays maintain that in England appreciation for his work has always extended beyond educated elites and that ever since Shakespeare's own time his plays have always been known and loved by comparatively uneducated people. Skepticism about this claim is borne out by examining early eighteen-century editions of the plays. These books, with their fine paper and good bindings, must have been far beyond the reach of people of ordinary means.

1. The main point of the argument is to

(A) suggest that knowledge of Shakespeare's play is a suitable criterion for distinguishing the educated elite from other members of English society

(B) provide evidence that at some time in the past appreciation for Shakespeare's play was confined to educated elites

(C) prove that early eighteenth-century appreciation for Shakespeare's works rested on aspects of the works that are less appreciated today

(D) demonstrate that since Shakespeare's time the people who have known and loved his work have all been members of educated elites

(E) confirm the skepticism of the educated elite concerning the worth of Shakespeare's plays

2. Which one of the following describes a reasoning error in the argument?

(A) The argument uses the popularity of Shakespeare's plays as a measure of their literary quality.

(B) The argument bases an aesthetic conclusion about Shakespeare's plays on purely economic evidence.

(C) The argument anachronistically uses the standards of the twentieth century to judge events that occurred in the early eighteenth century.

(D) The argument judges the literary quality of a book's ten on the basis of the quality of the volume in which the text is printed.

(E) The argument does not allow for the possibility that people might know Shakespeare's plays without having read them.

3. Organization president: The stationery and envelopes used in all of the mailings from our national headquarters are made from recycled paper, and we never put anything but letters in the envelopes. When the envelopes have windows are also made from recycled material. Therefore the envelopes and thus these mailings, are completely recyclable.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the organization president's argument depends?

(A) All the paper used by the organization for purposes other than mailings is recycled.

(B) The mailing from the organization's national headquarters always use envelopes that have windows.

(C) The envelope windows made from recycled material are recyclable.

(D) The envelopes and stationery used in the organization's mailings are always recycled.

(E) The organization sends mailings only from its national headquarters.

Questions4-5

The frequently expressed view that written constitutions are inherently more liberal than unwritten ones is false. No written constitution is more than a paper with words on it until those words are both interpreted and applied. Properly understood, then, a constitution is the sum of those procedures through which the power of the state is legitimately exercised and limited. Therefore, even a written constitution becomes a liberal constitution only when it is interpreted and applied in a liberal way.

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