My first time experience with such types of CR questions

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As follows:

Mr. Janeck: I don't believe Stevenson will win the election for governor. Few voters are willing to elect a businessman with no political experience to such a responsible public office.
Ms. Siuzdak: You're wrong. The experience of running a major corporation is a valuable preparation for the task of running a state government.

M. Siuzdak's response shows that she has interpreted Mr. Janeck's remark to imply which of the following?

(A) Mr. Janeck considers Stevenson unqualified for the office of governor.
(B) No candidate without political experience has ever been elected governor of a state.
(C) Mr. Janeck believes that political leadership and business leadership are closely analogous.
(D) A career spent in the pursuit of profit can be an impediment to one's ability to run a state government fairly.
(E) Voters generally overestimate the value of political experience when selecting a candidate.

How can A be the correct answer if the question asks about M. Suizdak\s response? Or have i completely misunderstood the question?
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Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of Dickinson's poetry often distorted her intentions. Yet Johnson's own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion. To standardize Dickinson's often indecipherable handwritten punctuation by the use of the dash is to render permanent a casual mode of poetic phrasing that Dickinson surely never expected to see in print. It implies that Dickinson chose the dash as her typical mark of punctuation when, in fact, she apparently never made any definitive choice at all.

Which of the following best summarizes the author's main point?

(A) Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson's early editors for their distortion of her work, his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions.
(B) Johnson's use of the dash in his text of Dickinson's poetry misleads readers about the poet's intentions.
(C) Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published, virtually any attempt at editing it must run counter to her intentions.
(D) Although Johnson's attempt to produce a more faithful text of Dickinson's poetry is well-meaning, his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.
(E) Dickinson's editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson's handwritten manuscripts.

B being correct only summarizes the initial point the autro tries to imply, however i thought the answer was going to be C. What have i done wrong?
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If A, then B.
If B, then C.
If C, then D.

If all of the statements above are true, which of the following must also be true?

(A) If D, then A.
(B) If not B, then not C.
(C) If not D, then not A.
(D) If D, then E.
(E) If not A, then not D.

Now this one has totally blown me away. I havent understood the whole task, maybe a little insight into this problem or some suggested reading/tips?
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by neoreaves » Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:52 am
For 1) the answer should be A

We have to look at how Ms. Siuzdak interprets Mr Janecks remarks. She is only attacking the qualification part not the voters part thus Ms. Siuzdak is countering about the qualification and nothing else. This is a tricky question because here we have to make sure we dont let our opinions influence the answers ....we have to strictly stick to what Ms. Siuzdak thinks

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by Delayed_flight » Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:35 am
BUt what function the "imply which of the following?" part of the question has? I dont understand the last part of the question: if they ask how Siuzdak interpreted Janeck, why do we need 'imply which of the following part'? Doesnt the correct answer (that is A) just paraphrase Janeck's statement?

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by joseph32 » Mon May 16, 2016 12:08 am
I must admit that A seems to be the answer. What's OA?