Reading Comprehension · Attitude

PrepTest 142 · Section 3 · Question 5

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

The author's opinion of a named example follows from the author's general claim about the whole category.

The basic logic

Ask how the author treats the example: as a sample of great art. Then pick the opinion that applies the author's main claim to that example, nothing stronger.

Tiny words that decide it

“masterpiece”
“no less”
“as”

Playground logic

Priya uses the Red Sparrow as her example of a great kite that judges ignore. Since she thinks great kites are art equal to drawings, she'd say it matters as much as a prize drawing.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–8). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Why Don't Kites Get a Ribbon? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Priya would most likely hold which opinion about the Red Sparrow?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 142, Section 3, Question 5 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 5 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find where the author names the example and ask why it was mentioned. It is usually a sample of the author's main category. Apply the main claim to the example. Reject choices that rank it against its own era or audience unless the passage says so, and reject anything the passage never says.