Critical Reasoning

1. For a trade embargo against a particular country to
succeed, a high degree of both international accord
and ability to prevent goods from entering or leaving
that country must be sustained. A total blockade of
Patria's ports is necessary to an embargo, but such an
action would be likely to cause international discord
over the embargo.

The claims above, if true, most strongly support which
of the following conclusions?

(A) The balance of opinion is likely to favor Patria in
the event of a blockade.
(B) As long as international opinion is unanimously
against Patria, a trade embargo is likely to
succeed.
(C) A naval blockade of Patria's ports would ensure
that no goods enter or leave Patria.
(D) Any trade embargo against Patria would be likely
to fail at some time.
(E) For a blockade of Patria's ports to be
successful, international opinion must be
unanimous.

2. Theater Critic: The play La Finestrina, now at Central
Theater, was written in Italy in the eighteenth century.
The director claims that this production is as similar to
the original production as is possible in a modern
theater. Although the actor who plays Harlequin the
clown gives a performance very reminiscent of the
twentieth-century American comedian Groucho Marx,
Marx's comic style was very much within the comic
acting tradition that had begun in sixteenth-century
Italy.

The considerations given best serve as part of an
argument that

(A) modern audiences would � nd it hard to tolerate
certain characteristics of a historically accurate
performance of an eighteenth-century play
(B) Groucho Marx once performed the part of the
character Harlequin in La Finestrina
(C) in the United States the training of actors in the
twentieth century is based on principles that do
not differ radically from those that underlay the
training of actors in eighteenth-century Italy
(D) the performance of the actor who plays
Harlequin in La Finestrina does not serve as
evidence against the director's claim
(E) the director of La Finestrina must have advised
the actor who plays Harlequin to model his
performance on comic performances of
Groucho Marx

OA after some discussion.

1- E
2- D

@ force5: Could you please explain your answers?

force5 wrote:1- E
2- D

E
D

@ navami: Could you please explain your answers?

navami wrote:E
D

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