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. Your sofa may be poisoning you. Its foam padding probably contains flame retardant chemicals called

polybrominated diphenyl ethers. These chemicals have been linked to memory loss and brain damage. Also they may cause cancer and damage the liver.

A) Argument; conclusion: Also they may cause cancer and damage the liver.

B) Nonargument.

C) Argument; conclusion: These chemicals ... brain damage.

D) Argument; conclusion: Its foam padding ... polybrominated diphenyl ethers.

E) Argument; conclusion: Your sofa may be poisoning you.


E

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