LSAT 104 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q23

RC Question 23 Explanation

DISCUSSION: See lines 44-45. If a parent reads a story, then the child believes that the parent approves of the story.

Most of the wrong answers are nonsense that ignore those lines. This question shows that it’s important to be able to quickly locate and reread key lines.

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1. Bettelheim is comparing children who do read fairy tales to children who have fairy tales read to them by their parents.
2. Why would believing a fairy tale help a child? Bettelheim says that the stories help children because they lead children to solve their own problems.
3. CORRECT. This is a rephrase of lines 44-45. Sanction means “approval”.
4. This partly contradicts Bettelheim, who says that the stories help children because they cause children to re-imagine and solve their own problems.
    
   So if a child follows his parents’ interpretation, he will be less able to interpret the story to solve his problems.
5. This has nothing to do with anything, and is never mentioned in the passage. There’s no reason the parents should tell a child the stories are make-believe. Just read lines 44-45.