PrepTest C2, Section 2, Question 18

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Critic: The contemporary novel is incapable of making important new contributions. The evidence is clear. Contemporary psychological novels have been failures. Contemporary action novels lack any social significance. And contemporary romance novels are stale and formulaic.

Critic: The contemporary novel is incapable of making important new contributions. The evidence is clear. Contemporary psychological novels have been failures. Contemporary action novels lack any social significance. And contemporary romance novels are stale and formulaic.

Critic: The contemporary novel is incapable of making important new contributions. The evidence is clear. Contemporary psychological novels have been failures. Contemporary action novels lack any social significance. And contemporary romance novels are stale and formulaic.

Critic: The contemporary novel is incapable of making important new contributions. The evidence is clear. Contemporary psychological novels have been failures. Contemporary action novels lack any social significance. And contemporary romance novels are stale and formulaic.

Question
18

The flawed reasoning in the critic's argument is most similar to that in which one of the following?

Since no government has been able to regulate either employment or inflation very closely, it is impossible for any government to improve its nation's economy.

Because there has been substantial progress in recent years in making machines more efficient, it is only a matter of time before we invent a perpetual motion machine.

The essayist Macaulay was as widely read in his time as Dickens, but has been neglected since. Thus writers who are popular today are likely to be forgotten in the future.

This politician has not made any proposals for dealing with the problem of unemployment and thus must not think the problem is important.

In international commerce, the corporations that are best suited for success are large and multinational. Thus small corporations cannot compete at the international level.

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