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CR · Critical Reasoning
655-705
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Which of the following most logically completes the argument? The title page of a book printed in 1960 bears a handwritten quotation from a twelfth-century Norse treaty below which appears the date March 1961 and the name of the scholar Lars J. Only three manuscripts of the treaty existed in 1961, and a printed version was not published until 1970. Although it is conceivable that Lars saw one of the three manuscripts, it is more probable that the title-page inscription is a forgery, since __________.
Which of the following most logically completes the argument? The title page of a book printed in 1960 bears a handwritten quotation from a twelfth-century Norse treaty below which appears the date March 1961 and the name of the scholar Lars J. Only three manuscripts of the treaty existed in 1961, and a printed version was not published until 1970. Although it is conceivable that Lars saw one of the three manuscripts, it is more probable that the title-page inscription is a forgery, since __________.
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the printed edition of the treaty was based on only one of the three manuscripts, the other having been known to very few scholars before 1970
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Lars J is known to have used several different styles in writing his signature
C
Lars J died not long after the publication of the printed edition of the treaty
D
the quotation follows exactly the spelling of the printed edition, which contains errors introduced by the printer
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Lars J was one of relatively few people who could still read Norse in the 1900s
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SuryaMar 26, 2025
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