June 2007 PrepTest, Section 3, Question 7
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Agree / Disagree
Difficulty:
Explanations
Okay, it’s better to look at this in reverse. Marla thinks that people living “moderately” don’t actually live moderately. To live moderately, she says, requires risking “going too far.” People who don’t aren’t living moderately.
Antonio says that living moderately causes one to lose “the joy of spontaneity” and miss “the opportunities that come to those who are occasionally willing to take great chances, or to go too far.”
Now, what is their disagreement? That people living moderately don’t take risks.
A
Desirability is never discussed.
B
Yeah, that’s not how I expected it to be phrased, but it means the same thing. Antonio thinks moderation requires never taking risks. Marla thinks moderation requires taking risks.
C
Other virtues are never discussed.
D
What a person “ought” to do is never discussed. Marla and Antonio aren’t advocating for a person to pursue a life of moderation. They are just discussing what a life of moderation entails.
E
Nope. Wrong for essentially the same reasons as A and D.
Passage
Antonio: One can live a life of moderation by never deviati
Question 7
Antonio and Marla disagree over