Reading Comprehension · Comparative (Inference across passages)

PrepTest 129 · Section 4 · 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

Comparative: what would one author accept from the other passage

The one idea it tests

Take something the second passage says and check whether the first author's own ideas would explain or support it.

The basic logic

Use the Voice Tracker. Hold the first author's key idea in one hand and the second passage's details in the other. The right answer links a detail from the second passage to a principle the first author already states.

Tiny words that decide it

“would agree”
“both”
“explains”

Playground logic

Nadia's review says Aunt Rosa leaves feelings unsaid and keeps things plain. Owen's review mentions her plain brown-paper puppets. Nadia would happily say those plain puppets come from that same 'feeling nobody says' aim.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 13–19). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Aunt Rosa's Puppet Shows: Two Reviews →

Step 3 · Try the model question

If Nadia, the writer of the first review, read Owen's review, which statement would she most probably accept?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 129, Section 4, 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.

Write down the first author's central principle in five words. Then scan the second passage for details that principle could explain. Test each choice: does the first author have a stated reason to accept it? Drop anything that only the second author's voice supports, anything that attacks the creator the first author admires, and anything neither passage covers.