Logical reasoning PrepTest 146 · Section 3 · Question 24

Incorrect. The stimulus doesn't discuss works being well received, nor does it relate reception between domestic and international traditions. Those traditions are discussed in the first statement's necessary condition, but there's no conditional relationship that connects one to the other.

Incorrect. What these works offer to different readers isn't mentioned and is thus out of scope of this stimulus.

Incorrect. That first conditional could justify an answer about a work not being rightly thought of as world literature if we take the contrapositive of it: not R/I own national tradition OR not R/I external national tradition → not World literature. However, this answer doesn't meet those sufficient conditions, which are about the work being received and interpreted, not about it being more meaningful to certain readers.

Incorrect. The stimulus never discusses what influences a work must have in order to be considered world literature, so this answer is out of scope. The argument establishes only that worlds of world literature must be received and interpreted outside (and within) a national tradition.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Facts

Question Type:
Must Be True

Stimulus Summary:
World literature → Received/interpreted own national tradition AND Received/interpreted external national tradition
Model to develop own tradition OR Negative case to be avoided OR Radical otherness prompting home refinement → Interpreted within national tradition

Answer Anticipation:
Wow, what a conditional statement! That second one sure is a doozy.

This Must Be True question presents two conditional statements that don't chain together—the only overlap is between the necessary conditions. As such, this question is likely going to ask you to simply track the conditionals since they're so long and have so many details in them. Let's head to the answers to find one that conforms to one of the conditionals, noting that we should also check any details against the stimulus instead of just our diagram since we didn't capture everything and there might be trap answers we can eliminate based on small, easy-to-miss details.

Answer Explanation:
That first conditional can justify an answer stating something isn't rightly world literature if we take the contrapositive: not R/I own national tradition OR not R/I external national tradition → not World literature. And the second statement deals with affecting development as being a part of a national tradition. If a work affects only one tradition, then it can't be said to have been interpreted within both the writer's own national tradition and an external one, as that would require affecting the development of at least 2 national traditions.

Key Takeaway:
When conditional statements don't chain together in Must Be True questions, the answers will generally try to apply them, but the wrong ones will fail in the details. Here, each of the incorrect answers was in the general space of the stimulus, but they each had a term or idea that was out of scope—a term shift from something actually discussed in the stimulus.