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Reading Comprehension · Meaning in Context

PrepTest 113 · Section 1 · Question 16

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Meaning in Context
The one idea it tests
A quoted phrase means what its surrounding sentences say it means, not its everyday sense.
The basic logic
Read the sentence before and after the phrase. Ask what view the speaker is attacking. The phrase names that view's demand on artists.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “such a view”
  • “requires”
  • “namely”

Playground logic

Nadia's "fenced-yard art" is not about real fences. It names the idea that an artist must stay inside her own group's themes and causes.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 14–21). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Nadia's Attic Hero →

Step 3 · Try the model question

In the kid passage, the phrase "fenced-yard art" is best understood as

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 113, Section 1, Question 16 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 16 in your official copy and answer it first.

Go back to the quoted phrase and read the whole sentence plus its neighbors. Identify whose view the phrase sums up and what that view demands. Choose the answer that names that demand. Reject literal readings and choices that borrow a nearby idea from a different part of the passage.