Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 141 · Section 3 · Question 2

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference (Most Strongly Supported)

The one idea it tests

The best supported answer is a safe step from what the passage says, often a restatement of the big shift.

The basic logic

Use the Lunchbox Rule: only what is packed in the passage. Look for the answer that follows from the old belief being overturned. Watch for extra claims about spreading, cures, or levels of support.

Tiny words that decide it

“thus”
“challenged”
“widely assumed”

Playground logic

The kid passage says everyone assumed every craze needed a toy, then snappers broke that. So the class clearly had to rethink what a craze needs.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Craze With No Toy →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which statement gets the strongest backing from the kid passage?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 141, Section 3, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 2 in your official copy and answer it first.

Hold each choice up to the text and ask where it is packed. Favor the one that restates the overturned belief in a modest way. Reject choices that add facts about spread, prevention, or rates the passage never gives, and any that flip what the last paragraph says about acceptance.