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LSAT-Section-3-Analytical-Reasoning – Section Three : Analytical Reasoning

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Question 16

While traveling to Japan, a low-ranking US ambassador asked a Japanese official why Japanese people were so inscrutable. The official looked calm and friendly, responding in a gentle voice that he much preferred to think upon his race as inscrutable than of his race as wanting in perspicacity such as in Americans.

Of the following statements, which best describes the Japanese official's comment?

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    All people are inscrutable, not just the Japanese
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    Most Americans don't understand Japanese culture
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    What a person lacks in perception may be a result of the carelessness of the observer, instead of the obscurity within the object being observed.
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    The Japanese distrust American ambassadors
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    If the East and West are ever to understand one another, there will need to be a much better cultural understanding
Question 17

While traveling to Japan, a low-ranking US ambassador asked a Japanese official why Japanese people were so inscrutable. The official looked calm and friendly, responding in a gentle voice that he much preferred to think upon his race as inscrutable than of his race as wanting in perspicacity such as in Americans.

Of the following words, which one best describes both the attitude and the response made by the Japanese official?

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    Fearful
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    Emotional
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    Angry
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    Indifferent
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    Compassionate
Question 18

One day, a poet was requested to interpret an especially peculiar and obscure passage within one of his own poems. His response was “at the time that I was writing that particular verse, only God and myself knew its meaning. Now, it is only God who knows.”

What does the poet mean by his answer?

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    God is much wiser than people are
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    most people can't understand poetry
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    Poets don't often know where their creative inspiration comes from
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    great poems are inspired by a muse
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    the poet has forgotten the meaning of his own verse