LSAT-TEST Online Practice Questions and Answers

On a Tuesday, an accountant has exactly seven bills -- numbered 1 through 7 -- to pay by Thursday of the

same week. The accountant will pay each bill only once according to the following rules:

Either three or four of the seven bills must be paid on Wednesday, the rest on Thursday.

Bill 1 cannot be paid on the same day as bill 5.

Bill 2 must be paid on Thursday.

Bill 4 must be paid on the same day as bill 7.

If bill 6 is paid on Wednesday, bill 7 must be paid on Thursday.

Which one of the following statements must be true?

A. If bill 2 is paid on Thursday, bill 3 is paid on Wednesday.

B. If bill 4 is paid on Thursday, bill 1 is paid on Wednesday.

C. If bill 4 is paid on Thursday, bill 3 is paid on Wednesday.

D. If bill 6 is paid on Thursday, bill 3 is also paid on Thursday.

E. If bill 6 is paid on Thursday, bill 4 is also paid on Thursday.

Exactly six piano classes are given sequentially on Monday: two with more than one student and four with

exactly one student. Exactly four females -- Gimena, Holly, Iyanna, and Kate -- and five males -- Leung,

Nate, Oscar, Pedro, and Saul -- attend these classes. Each student attends exactly one class. The

following must obtain:

Iyanna and Leung together constitute one class.

Pedro and exactly two others together constitute one class.

Kate is the first female, but not the first student, to attend a class.

Gimena's class is at some time after Iyanna's but at some time before Pedro's.

Oscar's class is at some time after Gimena's.

Which one of the following pairs of students could be in the class with Pedro?

A. Gimena and Holly

B. Holly and Saul

C. Kate and Nate

D. Leung and Oscar

E. Nate and Saul

The student body at this university takes courses in a wide range of disciplines. Miriam is a student at this university, so she takes courses in a wide range of disciplines.

Which one of the following arguments exhibits flawed reasoning most similar to that exhibited by the argument above?

A. The students at this school take mathematics. Miguel is a student at this school, so he takes mathematics.

B. The editorial board of this law journal has written on many legal issues. Louise is on the editorial; board, so she has written on many legal issues.

C. The component parts of bulldozers are heavy. This machine is a bulldozer, so it is heavy.

D. All older automobiles need frequent oil changes. This car is new, so its oil need not be changed as frequently.

E. The individual cells of the brain are incapable of thinking. Therefore, the brain as a whole is incapable of thinking.

Physician: Heart disease generally affects men at an earlier age than it does women, who tend to experience heart disease after menopause. Both sexes have the hormones estrogen and testosterone, but when they are relatively young, men have ten times as much testosterone as women, and women abruptly lose estrogen after menopause. We can conclude, then, that testosterone tends to promote, and estrogen tends to inhibit, heart disease.

The physician's argument is questionable because it presumes which one of the following without providing sufficient justification?

A. Hormones are the primary factors that account for the differences in age-related heart disease risks between women and men.

B. Estrogen and testosterone are the only hormones that promote or inhibit heart disease.

C. Men with high testosterone levels have a greater risk for heart disease than do postmenopausal women.

D. Because hormone levels are correlated with heart disease they influence heart disease.

E. Hormone levels do not vary from person to person, especially among those of the same age and gender.

Announcement for a television program: Are female physicians more sensitive than male physicians to the needs of women patients? To get the answer, we'll ask physicians of both sexes this question. Tune in tomorrow.

Which one of the following, if true, identifies a flaw in the plan for the program?

A. Physicians are in general unwilling to describe the treatment style of other physicians.

B. There still are fewer women than men who are physicians, so a patient might not have the opportunity to choose a woman as a physician.

C. Those who are best able to provide answers to the question are patients, rather than physicians.

D. Since medical research is often performed on men, not all results are fully applicable to women as patients.

E. Women as patients are now beginning to take more active role in managing their care and making sure that they understand the medical alternatives.

The organizer of a reading club will select at least five and at most six works from a group of nine works.

The group consists of three French novels, three Russian novels, two French plays, and one Russian play.

The organizer's selection of works must conform to the following requirements:

No more than four French works are selected.

At least three but no more than four novels are selected.

At least as many French novels as Russian novels are selected.

If both French plays are selected, then the Russian play is not selected.

If the works selected include three French novels, which one of the following could be a complete and

accurate list of the remaining works selected?

A. one Russian novel

B. two French plays

C. one Russian novel, one Russian play

D. one Russian novel, two French plays

E. two Russian novels, one French play

Marie Curie was one of the most accomplished scientists in history. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered radium, an element widely used for treating cancer, and studied uranium and other radioactive substances. Pierre and Marie's amicable collaboration later helped to unlock the secrets of the atom. Marie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, where her father was a professor of physics. At the early age, she displayed a brilliant mind and a blithe personality. Her great exuberance for learning prompted her to continue with her studies after high school. She became disgruntled, however, when she learned that the university in Warsaw was closed to women. Determined to receive a higher education, she defiantly left Poland and in 1891 entered the Sorbonne, a French university, where she earned her master's degree and doctorate in physics. Marie was fortunate to have studied at the Sorbonne with some of the greatest scientists of her day, one of whom was Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre were married in 1895 and spent many productive years working together in the physics laboratory. A short time after they discovered radium, Pierre was killed by a horse-drawn wagon in 1906. Marie was stunned by this horrible misfortune and endured heartbreaking anguish. Despondently she recalled their close relationship and the joy that they had shared in scientific research. The fact that she had two young daughters to raise by herself greatly increased her distress. Curie's feeling of desolation finally began to fade when she was asked to succeed her husband as a physics professor at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to be given a professorship at the world-famous university. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for isolating radium. Although Marie Curie eventually suffered a fatal illness from her long exposure to radium, she never became disillusioned about her work. Regardless of the consequences, she had dedicated herself to science and to revealing the mysteries of the physical world.

When she learned that she could not attend the university in Warsaw, she felt _____________.

A. hopeless

B. annoyed

C. depressed

D. worried

E. none of the above

"Old woman," grumbled the burly white man who had just heard Sojourner Truth speak, "do you think your talk about slavery does any good? I don't care anymore for your talk than I do for the bite of a flea." The tall, imposing black woman turned her piercing eyes on him. "Perhaps not," she answered, "but I'll keep you scratching." The little incident of the 1840s sums up all that Sojourner Truth was: utterly dedicated to spreading her message, afraid of no one, forceful and witty in speech. Yet forty years earlier, who could have suspected that a spindly slave girl growing up in a damp cellar in upstate New York would become one of the most remarkable women in American history? Her name then was Isabella (many slaves had no last names), and by the time she was fourteen she had seen both parents die of cold and hunger. She herself had been sold several times. By 1827, when New York freed its slaves, she had married and borne five children. The first hint of Isabella's fighting spirit came soon after wards, when her youngest son was illegally seized and sold. She marched to the courthouse and badgered officials until her son was returned to her. In 1843, inspired by religion, she changed her name to Sojourner (meaning "one who stays briefly") Truth, and, with only pennies in her purse, set out to preach against slavery. From New England to Minnesota she trekked, gaining a reputation for her plain but powerful and moving words. Incredibly, despite being black and female (only white males were expected to be public speakers), she drew thousands to town halls, tents, and churches to hear her powerful, deep-voiced pleas on equality for blacks-and for women. Often she had to face threatening hoodlums. Once she stood before armed bullies and sang a hymn to them. Awed by her courage and her commanding presence, they sheepishly retreated.

During the Civil War she cared for homeless ex-slaves in Washington. President Lincoln invited her to the White House to bestow praise on her. Later, she petitioned Congress to help former slaves get land in the West. Even in her old age, she forced the city of Washington to integrate its trolley cars so that black and white could ride together. Shortly before her death at eighty-six, she was asked what kept her going. "I think of the great things," replied Sojourner.

The imposing black woman promised to keep the white man

A. searching

B. crying

C. hollering

D. scratching

E. fleeing

Tragic dramas written in Greece during the fifth century B.C. engender considerable scholarly debate over the relative influence of individual autonomy and the power of the gods on the drama's action. One early scholar, B. Snell, argues that Aeschylus, for example, develops in his tragedies a concept of the autonomy of the individual. In these dramas, the protagonists invariably confront a situation that paralyzes them, so that their prior notions about how to behave or think are dissolved. Faced with a decision on which their fate depends, they must reexamine their deepest motives, and then act with determination. They are given only two alternatives, each with grave consequences, and they make their decision only after a tortured internal debate. According to Snell, this decision is "free" and "personal" and such personal autonomy constitutes the central theme in Aeschylean drama, as if the plays were devised to isolate an abstract model of human action. Drawing psychological conclusions from this interpretation, another scholar, Z. Barbu, suggests that "[Aeschylean] drama is proof of the emergence within ancient Greek civilization of the individual as a free agent." To A. Rivier, Snell's emphasis on the decision made by the protagonist, with its implicit notions of autonomy and responsibility, misrepresents the role of the superhuman forces at work, forces that give the dramas their truly tragic dimension. These forces are not only external to the protagonist; they are also experienced by the protagonist as an internal compulsion, subjecting him or her to constraint, even in what are claimed to be his or her "choices." Hence all that the deliberation does is to make the protagonist aware of the impasse, rather than motivating one choice over another. It is finally a necessity imposed by the deities that generates the decision, so that at a particular moment in the drama necessity dictates a path. Thus, the protagonist does not so much "choose" between two possibilities as "recognize" that there is only one real option. Lesky, in his discussion of Aeschylus' play Agamemnon, disputes both views. Agamemnon, ruler of Argos, must decide whether to brutally sacrifice his own daughter. A message from the deity Artemis has told him that only the sacrifice will bring a wind to blow his ships to an important battle. Agamemnon is indeed constrained by a divine necessity. But he also deeply desires a victorious battle: "If this sacrifice will loose the winds, it is permitted to desire it fervently," he says. The violence of his passion suggests that Agamemnon chooses a path ?chosen by the gods for their own reasons ?on the basis of desires that must be condemned by us, because they are his own. In Lesky's view, tragic action is bound by the constant tension between a self and superhuman forces.

It can be inferred from the passage that the central difference between the interpretations of Lesky and Rivier is over which one of the following points?

A. whether or not the tragic protagonist is aware of the consequences of his or her actions

B. whether or not the tragic protagonist acknowledges the role of the deities in his or her life

C. whether or not the tragic protagonist's own desires have relevance to the outcome of the drama

D. whether or not the actions of the deities are relevant to the moral! Evaluation of the character's action

E. whether or not the desires of the tragic protagonist are more ethical than those of the deities

In a school function ceremony, seven students, Amy, Bob, Chad, Dom, Elisa, Fischer, and Grant have to deliver their performances in seven consecutive slots, not necessarily in the order of their given names. The following information is known about the order in which the students perform: Chad performs immediately before Dom Grant performs sometime after Chad There are exactly two performances made between the performances of Amy and Elisa

In which of the following slots can Grant not perform?

A. Second

B. Third

C. Fourth

D. Fifth

E. Sixth