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. Health care is a basic right. Our current system is convoluted and unethical and should go the way of gladiator

games. We can spar and battle in the free market in many arenas, but when we get sick we should all have care-not just the lawyers, bankers, politicians, and others who can afford it. We like the free market, but we shouldn't let people die in the street-not in this country. Lucius Schoenbaum, Letter to the Editor

A) Argument; conclusion: We can spar and battle ... others who can afford it.

B) Argument; conclusion: We like the free market ... not in this country.

C) Argument; conclusion: Our current system is convoluted ... gladiator games.

D) Nonargument.

E) Argument; conclusion: Health care is a basic right.


D

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