PrepTest 35, Section 2, Question 14

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Novelists cannot become great as long as they remain in academia. Powers of observation and analysis, which schools successfully hone, are useful to the novelist, but an intuitive grasp of the emotions of everyday life can be obtained only by the kind of immersion in everyday life that is precluded by being an academic.

Novelists cannot become great as long as they remain in academia. Powers of observation and analysis, which schools successfully hone, are useful to the novelist, but an intuitive grasp of the emotions of everyday life can be obtained only by the kind of immersion in everyday life that is precluded by being an academic.

Novelists cannot become great as long as they remain in academia. Powers of observation and analysis, which schools successfully hone, are useful to the novelist, but an intuitive grasp of the emotions of everyday life can be obtained only by the kind of immersion in everyday life that is precluded by being an academic.

Novelists cannot become great as long as they remain in academia. Powers of observation and analysis, which schools successfully hone, are useful to the novelist, but an intuitive grasp of the emotions of everyday life can be obtained only by the kind of immersion in everyday life that is precluded by being an academic.

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Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

Novelists require some impartiality to get an intuitive grasp of the emotions of everyday life.

No great novelist lacks powers of observation and analysis.

Participation in life, interspersed with impartial observation of life, makes novelists great.

Novelists cannot be great without an intuitive grasp of the emotions of everyday life.

Knowledge of the emotions of everyday life cannot be acquired by merely observing and analyzing life.

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