Reading Comprehension · Attitude

PrepTest 118 · Section 2 · Question 13

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Attitude

The one idea it tests

Attitude questions ask how the author feels about a group, judged from the author's tone and moves.

The basic logic

Note whether the author agrees, and how. Answering each objection with reasons, while admitting a small point, shows disagreement that is calm and argued, not mocking, not neutral, not on board.

Tiny words that decide it

“admittedly”
“even”
“cannot”

Playground logic

The narrator sets the cousins' complaints aside with reasons, even granting that some are the better complaints. That is calm, reasoned disagreement.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Grandpa's Castle Climb →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which best describes the narrator's attitude toward the cousins' complaints?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 118, Section 2, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

First decide direction: does the author agree or disagree with the group? Then decide strength and style: heated, mocking, calm, hesitant? Look for words where the author grants a point or dismisses one. Choose the choice that matches both direction and style, and drop ones that are too extreme or that call the author neutral.