LSAT 115 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q15

RC Question 15 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Most of the wrong answers mention terms from the passage. To choose an answer, you must find the line in the passage that supports it. Otherwise, you might fall for the LSAT’s psychological tricks that fool people into choosing wrong answers.

Ever get a question wrong and realize you made a “stupid mistake”? Believe it or not, the LSAC planned for you to make that mistake. Much research goes into making these tests tricky. Checking the answers against the passage is the only way to avoid the traps they set.

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1. Lines 16-17 say that Western civilization has wanted to tame and to preserve nature, but they don’t say which of the two is preferred. 
2. Lines 15-18 say that aiming to understand nature is a masculinist and colonialist part of Western Culture. Since science tries to understand nature, this implies that science is masculinist and colonialist. 
3. Lines 9-11 say that scientists make unconscious assumptions about primates. They don’t say whether scientists think primates are less passive.
4. Lines 21-25 say that we should recognize the role of those actors. But that doesn’t mean their role has been concealed. It could be that we’ve just ignored their role. 
5. CORRECT. Lines 12-15 say this. There has been a perceived divide between scientists and nature.