Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 18

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference

The one idea it tests

The author suggests a claim when the hypothesis depends on it, even if hedged with 'may'.

The basic logic

Look at what the author says the alternative hypothesis allows us to consider. If the author says a concept may legitimately apply to a group, that is the suggestion. Avoid choices that claim firsts, or bigger traits the passage never touches.

Tiny words that decide it

“may”
“allows”
“consider”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, Lulu suggests that kids may have had a real sense of the clover as scary, since that feeling drives her trail story.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 15–22). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Bald Spots on the Big Field →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The kid passage suggests that the Maple Street kids may have

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 18 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 18 in your official copy and answer it first.

Scan the author's hypothesis for what it 'allows us' or 'may force us' to think about the group. That hedged claim is your target. Match it, keeping the hedge. Cross out any answer that adds a 'first', a large new trait, or something tied to the view the author doubts.