LSAT-TEST Online Practice Questions and Answers

On the popular children's television show, there are four little animals that make up the "Creature Buddies"

are digitally animate. Since that means that they can't make a live stage performance, while the Creature

Buddies are on tour, each is represented by a puppet that is operated by a chief and an assistant

puppeteer.

The Creature Buddies are a: Dragon, Gorilla, Kangaroo, and Tiger.

The Creature's Names are: Audrey, Hamish, Melville, Rex

The Chief Puppeteers are: Ben, Jill, Paul and Sue

The Assistant Puppeteers are: Dave, Gale, Pam and Tom

Melville isn't the puppet who is operated by Sue and her assistant Pam.

Hamish's chief puppeteer (who is not Jill) is assisted by Tom.

Ben is in charge of the dragon, but Jill doesn't have anything to do with the kangaroo.

Dave is the assistant puppeteer for the tiger.

Rex, whose chief is Paul, isn't the gorilla (who's name is not Melville).

With what kind of animal does Gale work?

A. Dragon

B. Gorilla

C. Kangaroo

D. Tiger

E. Lemur

A crew of up to five workers is to install a partition in at most three days. The crew completes five tasks in

this order: framing, wallboarding, taping, sanding, priming. The crew is selected from the following list,

which specifies exactly the tasks each person can do:

George: taping

Helena: sanding, priming

Inga: framing, priming

Kelly: framing, sanding

Leanda: wallboarding, taping

Maricita: sanding

Olaf: wallboarding, priming

The following conditions must apply:

At least one task is done each day.

Taping and priming are done on different days.

Each crew member does at least one task during the installation, but no more than one task a day.

Each task is done by exactly one worker, completed the day it is started and before the next task begins.

Which one of the following could be a pair of members of the crew both of whom work on the same days

as each other and each of whom perform two tasks?

A. George and Maricita

B. Helena and Kelly

C. Inga and Leanda

D. Kelly and Leanda

E. Leanda and Olaf

There are exactly ten stores and no other buildings on Oak Street. On the north side of the street, from west to east, are stores 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9; on the south side of the street, also from west to east, are stores 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. The stores on the north side are located directly across the street from those on the south side, facing each other in pairs, as follows: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10. Each store is decorated with lights in exactly one of the following colors:

green, red, and yellow. The stores have been decorated with lights according to the following conditions:

No store is decorated with lights of the same color as those of any store adjacent to it.

No store is decorated with lights of the same color as those of the store directly across the street from it.

Yellow lights decorate exactly one store on each side of the street.

Red lights decorate store 4.

Yellow lights decorate store 5.

Suppose that yellow lights decorate exactly two stores, not just one, on the south side of the street and

decorate exactly one store on the north side.

If all of the other conditions remain the same, then which one of the following statements must be true?

A. Green lights decorate store 1.

B. Red lights decorate store 7.

C. Red lights decorate store 10.

D. Yellow lights decorate store 2.

E. Yellow lights decorate store 8.

Numerous paintings and engravings representing warfare can be found in remains of all civilizations going back to and including the Neolithic period, when agriculture was first developed. However, no paintings or engravings of warfare are found dating from before the Neolithic period. Therefore, warfare must have first developed as a result of the transition to an agricultural society.

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

A. Paintings and engravings were the dominant forms of artistic expression during the Neolithic period.

B. Warfare in the Neolithic period was always motivated by territorial disputes over agricultural land.

C. There was no warfare prior to the period in which paintings and engravings of warfare were first created.

D. Warfare is the inevitable result of the development of a civilization.

E. Paintings and engravings of agricultural life began to be made at the same time as paintings and engravings of warfare.

People who are good at playing the game Drackedary are invariably skilled with their hands. Mary is a very competent watchmaker. Therefore, Mary would make a good Drackedary player.

The flawed pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the following?

A. People with long legs make good runners. Everyone in Daryl's family has long legs. Therefore, Daryl would make a good runner.

B. People who write for a living invariably enjoy reading. Julie has been a published novelist for many years. Therefore, Julie enjoys reading.

C. All race car drivers have good reflexes. Chris is a champion table tennis player. Therefore, Chris would make a good race car driver.

D. The role of Santa Claus in a shopping mall is often played by an experienced actor. Erwin has played Santa Claus in shopping malls for years. Therefore, Erwin must be an experienced actor.

E. Any good skier can learn to ice-skate eventually. Erica is a world-class skier. Therefore, Erica could learn to ice-skate in a day or two.

Some people claim that the reason herbs are not prescribed as drugs by licensed physicians is that the medical effectiveness of herbs is seriously in doubt. No drug can be offered for sale, however, unless it has regulatory-agency approval for medicinal use in specific illnesses or conditions. It costs about $200 million to get regulatory-agency approval for a drug, and only the holder of a patent can expect to recover such large expenses. Although methods of extracting particular substances from herbs can be patented, herbs themselves and their medicinal uses cannot be. Therefore, under the current system licensed physicians cannot recommend the medicinal use of herbs.

The argument depends on the assumption that

A. the medical ineffectiveness of many herbs a streatments for specific illnesses or conditions is well established

B. the only time a substance is properly used as a drug is when it is prescribed as a drug by a licensed physician

C. a licensed physician cannot recommend the medicinal use of an herb unless that herb is offered for sale as a drug

D. some other substances, besides herbs, are not available as drugs because the illnesses they could effectively treat are too uncommon to allow those substances to be marketed profitably as drugs

E. the cost of medical care would be substantially reduced if faster ways of obtaining regulatory-agency approval for new drugs could be found

When using a metal file, always remember to bear down on the forward stroke only. On the return stroke, lift the file clear of the surface to avoid dulling the instrument's teeth. Only when working on very soft metals is it advisable to drag the file's teeth slightly on the return stroke. This helps clear out metal pieces from between the teeth. It is best to bear down just hard enough to keep the file cutting at all times. Too little pressure uses only the tips of the teeth; too much pressure can chip the teeth. Move the file in straight lines across the surface. Use a vice to grip the work so that your hands are free to hold the file. Protect your hands by equipping the file with a handle. Buy a wooden handle and install it by inserting the pointed end of the file into the handle hole.

These directions show you how to

A. work with a hammer

B. use a file

C. polish a file

D. oil a vise

E. repair shop tools

The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a stave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the viewpoint of one denied access to it. Jacobs, as a woman and a slave, faced the stigmas to which those statuses were subject. Jacobs crafted her narrative, in accordance with the mainstream literary genre of the sentimental domestic novel, as an embodiment of cherished cultural values such as the desirability of marriage and the sanctity of personal identity, home, and family. She did so because she was writing to the free women of her day ?the principal readers of domestic novels ?in the hopes that they would sympathize with and come to understand her unique predicament as a female slave. By applying these conventions of the genre to her situation, Jacobs demonstrates to her readers that family and domesticity are no less prized by those forced into slavery, thus leading her free readers to perceive those values within a broader social context.

Some critics have argued that, by conforming to convention, Jacobs shortchanged her own experiences; one critic, for example, claims that in Jacobs's work the purposes of the domestic novel overshadow those of the typical slave narrative. But the relationship between the two genres is more complex: Jacobs's attempt to frame her story as a domestic novel creates a tension between the usual portrayal of women in this genre and her actual experience, often calling into question the applicability of the hierarchy of values espoused by the domestic novel to those who are in her situation. Unlike the traditional romantic episodes in domestic novels in which a man and woman meet, fall in love, encounter various obstacles but eventually marry, Jacobs's protagonist must send her lover, a slave, away in order to protect him from the wrath of her jealous master. In addition, by the end of the narrative, Jacobs's protagonist achieves her freedom by escaping to the north, but she does not achieve the domestic novel's ideal of a stable home complete with family, as the price she has had to pay for her freedom is separation from most of her family, including one of her own children. Jacobs points out that, slave women view certain events and actions from a perspective different from that of free women, and that they must make difficult choices that free women need not. Her narrative thus becomes an antidomestic novel, for Jacobs accepts readily the goals of the genre, but demonstrates that its hierarchy of values does not apply when examined from the perspective of a female slave, suggesting thereby that her experience, and that of any female slave, cannot be fully understood without shedding conventional perspectives.

With which one of the following statements would the author of the passage be most likely to agree?

A. Some authors of slave narratives allowed the purposes of the genre to overshadow their own experiences.

B. The slave narrative, no less than the domestic novel, constitutes a literary genre.

C. Authors who write in a particular genre must obey the conventions of that genre.

D. An autobiography, no less than a novel, should tell a powerful story.

E. Autobiographies should be evaluated not on their literary merit but on their historical accuracy.

A new bank has decided to stay open only on weekends - all day Saturday and Sunday - and no other

days. The bank has hired two managers (U and V), Four tellers (W,X,Y, and Z), and two operation officers

(S and T), for a total of exactly eight full-time employees.

No part-time employees are hired.

Each employee works a complete day when working.

A manager must be on duty each day.

The managers cannot work on the same day.

At least two tellers must be working on the same day.

W and X will not work on the same day.

S and Z will only work on Saturday.

No employee can work on consecutive days, but each employee must work on Saturday or Sunday.

Which one of the following is a complete and accurate list of the employees who have the possibility of

working on Sunday?

A. UWYZ

B. UWYS

C. UVWXT

D. UVWXYT

E. UVWXYTS

In a school, 9 students, Andrew, Bach, Caesar, Drew, Elena, Fischer, Grant, Hughes, and Ileana are selected to form 3 debate teams – Team A, Team B and Team C - to participate in interschool competitions. The following information is known: Each team will have exactly 3 students and no student can be a part of more than one team Caesar cannot be selected in Team A if Ileana is not selected in Team A as well Andrew and Bach are in the same team and so are Elena and Grant Andrew and Caesar are not in the same team Bach and Ileana are not in the same team Drew and Elena are not in the same team

Which of the following could be the members of Team A?

A. Andrew, Bach, Elena

B. Andrew, Drew, Fischer

C. Caesar, Elena, Grant

D. Drew, Elena, Grant

E. Elena, Grant, Ileana