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ID: LSAT-LR-021
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Hard

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Reviewer: The novel has been widely praised for its ending, and the ending is indeed the best-written part of it -- the last chapter does in twenty pages what the preceding three hundred never manage. But a novel is not a short story. A form that asks three hundred pages of its reader has to earn them as it goes, and twenty pages of brilliance at the close cannot be spread backward over the three hundred that came before. The book fails.

The claim that the ending is the best-written part of the novel plays which one of the following roles in the reviewer's argument?

AIt is a concession to the novel's admirers, granted without qualification and then answered by a limit on what an excellent ending can do for a book of that length.

BIt is the reviewer's main conclusion, the judgement the rest of the paragraph is arranged to support.

CIt is a claim the reviewer takes over from the novel's admirers and then shows to be false, clearing the way for the unfavourable verdict that closes the paragraph.

DIt is evidence offered in support of the conclusion that the book fails, the fullest and most specific of the reasons the reviewer sets out before delivering that verdict at the close.

EIt is a general principle about what a novel owes its reader, stated so that the reviewer can bring it to bear on the particular book under review here.

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