Peter: Unlike in the past, most children’s stories nowadays don’t have

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Peter: Unlike in the past, most children’s stories nowadays don’t have clearly immoral characters in them. They should, though. Children need to learn the consequences of being bad.

Yoko: Children’s stories still tend to have clearly immoral characters in them, but now these characters tend not to be the sort that frighten children. Surely that’s an improvement.

Peter and Yoko disagree over whether today’s children’s stories

(A) should be less frightening than they are

(B) tend to be less frightening than earlier children’s stories were

(C) differ significantly in overall quality from earlier children’s stories

(D) tend to have clearly immoral characters in them

(E) should help children learn the consequences of being bad

IanStewart · Answer

If you read the first clause of each person's statement, the two people clearly disagree over whether immoral characters are present in contemporary children's stories, so D is correct.

David nguyen · Answer

Peter: Unlike in the past, most children’s stories nowadays don’t have clearly immoral characters in them. They should, though. Children need to learn the consequences of being bad.

Yoko: Children’s stories still tend to have clearly immoral characters in them, but now these characters tend not to be the sort that frighten children. Surely that’s an improvement.

Peter: Most children's stories nowadays don't have clearly immoral characters in them
Yoko: Children's stories still tend to have clearly immoral characters in them

=> Obvious disagreement here.

Peter and Yoko disagree over whether today’s children’s stories

Neither of them stated this (A) is out
 
This is Yoko's statement. Peter's statement was not against this (B) is out.
 
They never discuss about quality (C) is out.
 
As concluded above. 
 
Yoko says nothing about this. (E) is out.

(D) is the answer.

SonGoku · Answer

Hi  nightblade354 , I have a hard time solving these evaluate questions. I read the power score summary and I've been practicing official LSAT questions for GMAT. But, I'm always getting wrong on a two types of questions parallel reasoning and Evaluate, In which I'm not improving in evaluate questions. please help me.

nightblade354 · Answer

The way to break down these types of questions is to understand each argument separately. First, look at the first argument and understand the premise to conclusion relationship and what is being argued. Go through and eliminate any answers that don't correlate with it. Next, go through the second statement and understand that argument. You should only have a few answer choices left, but the key is to know WHAT is being argued, or WHY or HOW the argument is being attacked by the opposing view.

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