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#35186
Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=14208)
The correct answer choice is (C)
The right answer to this Must Be True question will be the only one that provides a question that can
be answered by the information in the passage.
Answer choice (A): This incorrect answer choice is intended to catch test takers who may have read
the passage a bit too quickly; the author mentions in the first paragraph that a lot of the manuscripts
produced on parchment still look new, and mentions, in an unrelated point in the third paragraph that
the works of Virgil and Homer have endured because of their popularity--but not that their works
were stored on parchment. Since this choice fails the Fact Test, it should be ruled out of contentioni n
response to this Must be True question.
Answer choice (B): In the first paragraph, the author mentions that books printed on acidic paper
in the 1980’s are unreadable, but does not assert that digital storage is necessarily more durable
than information stored on acidic paper, nor does the auhtor explore reasons for varying degrees
of durability among different types of media storage, so this choice does not provide a question
answered by the passage and cannot be the right answer.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. In the first paragraph, the author mentions
that optical storage disks were state-of-the-art in the 1980’s.
Answer choice (D): In the first paragraph of the passage the author mentions Mesopotamian clay
tablets as an example of ancient storage that still endures but does not specify how many such tablets
exist. The question provided in this choice cannot be answered by the information in the passage, so
this cannot be the right answer choice.
Answer choice (E): Some works of Plato, the author mentions in the final paragraph, were lost for
centuries before being rediscovered, but does not deal with the issue of how Plato’s works were
originally recorded.
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=14208)
The correct answer choice is (C)
The right answer to this Must Be True question will be the only one that provides a question that can
be answered by the information in the passage.
Answer choice (A): This incorrect answer choice is intended to catch test takers who may have read
the passage a bit too quickly; the author mentions in the first paragraph that a lot of the manuscripts
produced on parchment still look new, and mentions, in an unrelated point in the third paragraph that
the works of Virgil and Homer have endured because of their popularity--but not that their works
were stored on parchment. Since this choice fails the Fact Test, it should be ruled out of contentioni n
response to this Must be True question.
Answer choice (B): In the first paragraph, the author mentions that books printed on acidic paper
in the 1980’s are unreadable, but does not assert that digital storage is necessarily more durable
than information stored on acidic paper, nor does the auhtor explore reasons for varying degrees
of durability among different types of media storage, so this choice does not provide a question
answered by the passage and cannot be the right answer.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. In the first paragraph, the author mentions
that optical storage disks were state-of-the-art in the 1980’s.
Answer choice (D): In the first paragraph of the passage the author mentions Mesopotamian clay
tablets as an example of ancient storage that still endures but does not specify how many such tablets
exist. The question provided in this choice cannot be answered by the information in the passage, so
this cannot be the right answer choice.
Answer choice (E): Some works of Plato, the author mentions in the final paragraph, were lost for
centuries before being rediscovered, but does not deal with the issue of how Plato’s works were
originally recorded.
