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GRE Big Book Critical Reasoning Test 26

Jimmy Wang
07/25/2024

GRE Critical Reasoning

Directions

Critical Reasoning questions test the ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate arguments. Some of the abilities tested by specific questions include identifying the roles played by specific phrases or sentences in an argument, recognizing the point of an argument, recognizing assumptions on which an argument is based" drawing conclusions and forming hypotheses, identifying methods of argumentation, evaluating arguments and counter-arguments, and analyzing evidence.

Each of the Critical Reasoning questions is based on a short argument, a set of statements, or a plan of action. For each question, select the best answer of the choices given.

A novel by the deceased author Virginia Woolf that, in its manuscript form, was 48 chapters long and contained 200,000 words is being edited and reduced to 30 chapters and 70,000 words. Every word in the book will be Woolfs own, and the chapters will appear in the order in which she wrote them. The published result will therefore be an authentic Virginia Woolf novel.

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The claim that the new work is an authentic Virginia Woolf novel will be most damaged if which of the following is true?

A portion of the manuscript material that editors omitted from the published novel is almost identical to material that Virginia Woolf published in a nonfiction book during her lifetime.

An authentic novel contains dialogue, characterization, and narrative structures that are recognizably like those found in the author’s other major writings, if such writings exist.

An authentic novel is characterized by its author’s decisions about what should be included in it and what sort of emphasis should be given to what is included.

Not many of the novels that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime contain as few as 70,000 words.

Critics have argued that Virginia Woolfs writing style in the period during which she wrote this manuscript sometimes lacks conciseness.

1. Neither Carol nor Eric will travel by air.
II. Neither Carol nor Eric will travel to Burgundia.

#2

Statement II must be true if both Statement I and which of the following statements are true?

It is impossible to reach Burgundia except by air.

The cost of travel to Burgundia other than by air is almost prohibitive.

It is equally possible to reach Burgundia by commercial as by private airplane.

Immigration officials do not allow travelers without valid visas to enter Burgundia.

Until recently, Burgundia was closed to foreign visitors.

A dog hears higher pitches than a human hears; a cat has a greater capacity to see in dim light than a human normally has; a platypus picks up weak electric signals to which a human is normally insensitive.

#3

Which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn from the statements above?

Any human who can see in dim light does so less well than any cat.

During evolution the eyes and ears of human beings were modified to make human sense perception less acute.

Most animals have sensory capacities superior to those demonstrated by humans.

Researchers should not be surprised to find that all the sensory capacities of platypuses are greater than any of those demonstrated by humans.

Some animals have sensory capacities that are different from those of humans.

In the early 1970’s, when art reached its current high levels of popularity and value, a rash of thefts of works by great artists occurred in major art museums around the world. But, after 1975, sophisticated new security systems were installed in every major museum. As a consequence, important thefts in major museums declined markedly.

#4

Which of the following, if true, is strongest if offered as part of the evidence to show that improved security systems were responsible for the decline in thefts of important works from major museums?

The typical art work stolen during both the 1970’s and the 1980’s was a small piece that could be concealed on the person of the thief.

The prices paid to art thieves for stolen works were lower during the 1980’s than the prices paid to art thieves for comparable works during the 1970’s.

Art thefts in Europe, which has the largest number of works by great artists, outnumbered art thefts in the United States during the 1980’s.

Premiums paid by major museums to insure their most important works of art increased considerably between 1975 and 1985.

Thefts from private collections and smaller galleries of works by great artists increased sharply starting in the late 1970’s.

The government’s recent policy of reducing payments to hospitals and physicians will, in the long run, actually cost the public more. Every dollar saved by initially providing lower-quality services eventually leads to several dollars spent in caring for subsequent complications.

#5

Which of the following best serves as an assumption that would make the argument above logically correct?

The government is more concerned about limiting its costs than about the well-being of its citizens.

Hospitals and physicians will respond to reduced payments by reducing the quality of care they give.

The government will be unwilling to pay for the complications that arise from providing inadequate health care.

The government believes that the provision of lower-quality services need not result in an increase in complications.

Hospitals and physicians are paid too much money for the services they provide to the public.

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