Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Large groups of prospective jurors are dispatched to courtrooms where they sit around for three to four days
Then attorneys and judges, in between other extensive court business, query each prospective juror over and over again with the same time-consuming questions to see if the juror should be excused, picked, or challenged. The process is maddening to watch and listen to. More often than not, after being required to report to the courtroom for three to four days the prospective jurors, in droves, are dismissed. Alan V. Weinberg, Letter to the Editor
A) Argument; conclusion: More often than not ... are dismissed.
B) Argument; conclusion: The process is maddening to watch and listen to.
C) Argument; conclusion: Attorneys and judges ... or challenged.
D) Nonargument.
E) Argument; conclusion: Large groups of prospective jurors ... four days.
D
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