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ID: LSAT-LR-039
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Easy

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The marginal drawings in the manuscript have long been read as the work of a bored copyist. That reading has one real advantage: it explains why the drawings pay no attention at all to the text beside them. But it cannot explain why the same six figures recur in the same order in three separate manuscripts from the same house, or why in all three they begin at the fourth gathering. Whatever the drawings are for, they were planned before the copying began.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

AThe purpose of the marginal drawings can be established from the order in which the six figures appear.

BThe marginal drawings were planned before the copying began rather than added idly by the copyist as the work went along.

CThe marginal drawings pay no attention at all to the text beside them, and any account of the drawings has to explain that.

DThe copyist who made the marginal drawings cannot have been bored, since the same six figures recur in a fixed order in three manuscripts.

EThe same six figures recur in the same order in three separate manuscripts from the same house, and in all three they begin at the fourth gathering rather than the first.

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