Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 112 · Section 2 · Question 10

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Function (detail)

The one idea it tests

Famous examples at the start often stand for the usual view the passage is about to widen.

The basic logic

Read the sentence the names sit in. The scholar says these figures are not the only ones who stand for the best of the period, which only makes sense if they are usually taken to represent it. Their job is to stand for the traditional picture.

Tiny words that decide it

“not alone”
“traditionally”
“however”

Playground logic

Dot and Hank are named first because their comics are what everyone already treats as the club's best work; Aunt Rosa says they are 'not the only treasure'.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Treehouse Notebooks →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Why are Dot and Hank probably named at the very start?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 10 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 10 in your official copy and answer it first.

Reread the full sentence that holds the names and the sentence after it. Ask what the author needs the reader to already believe for that sentence to make sense. That belief is the examples' job. Pick the answer that names that role, and skip answers that tie the examples to claims made later about other people.