LSAT 128 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q4

RC Question 4 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: To which one of the following questions …

DISCUSSION: Read the answer choices, and you should have a sense of whether that topic was touched on or not in the passage. To be 100% sure, you want to find exactly where in the passage this question would be answered.

This is why it’s important to have a general map in your head of how the passage develops and what’s discussed in each paragraph. You’ll be able to go much faster.

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1. No specific works were mentioned.
2. CORRECT. Yes, paragraph 2 answers this.
3. This would’ve been true if it said among critics in Mexico. But the passage never addressed what Americans think of the literature.
4. We know the writers don’t want to be absorbed into US society, but we don’t know how American literature specifically has influenced them.
5. Keyword: “more”. We don’t know. We know it’s written in both, but not which one there’s more of.