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Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 112 · Section 2 · Question 9

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Inference
The one idea it tests
When the scholar says some experts underestimate a connection, the passage implies the connection is stronger than they think.
The basic logic
Find the criticism of the second group and the facts behind it (shared schooling in the old medium, important news arriving in it, works built on untranslated sources). Together they imply a strong link, and they show what the link rests on.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “underestimate”
  • “in fact”
  • “yet”

Playground logic

Aunt Rosa says the history fans miss how much the treehouse club borrowed from the creek club, and that the link ran through Flipcode. So the clubs were closer than the fans think.

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

Which statement about the treehouse club and the rival club across the creek follows from the passage?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 9 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 9 in your official copy and answer it first.

Locate the paragraph where the second group of scholars is criticized. Note what they are said to underestimate and the facts offered to show it. Ask what those facts imply together. Choose the answer that reflects both the strength of the connection and what it was built on, and avoid answers that reverse the direction or invent new details.