LSAT 137 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q2

RC Question 2 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The best way to answer this question is simply to finish reading the sentence that mentioned memorabilia.

Tucker’s collection has given us insight into a significant part of US entertainment history.

And since the author is studying Tucker, we can assume this memorabilia was a useful source.

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1. CORRECT. The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to describe the sources he used. Tucker’s collection is one of the sources.
2. What general claim about scholarly data gathering? The author doesn’t even mention scholarly methods in the first paragraph.
3. The author justifies reliance on Tucker’s oral testimony in paragraphs 3 and 4. The memorabilia is actually a reason the author doesn’t have to exclusively rely on oral testimony.
4. Tucker’s memorabilia were from film and theatre. They were professional memorabilia.
5. Actually, Tucker’s collection is unusual. If everyone kept collections like that then there Tucker’s collection would not have shed new light on anything (last sentence of paragraph 1).