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. Over the past decade, many graffiti artists have moved away from painting their signatures in the familiar

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wide-style lettering (a practice known as "tagging"). Instead, they make their mark with pictograms. Thus, a Belgian artist known as Plug appends large, cartoon electric plugs to machines in public places, while Cha, an academy-trained painter, adorns the walls of Barcelona with Picasso-influenced cats. Tristan Manco, "Street Logos"

A) Argument; conclusion: Cha, an academy?trained ... Picasso-influenced cats.

B) Argument; conclusion: Instead, they make their mark with pictograms.

C) Argument; conclusion: Over the past decade ... ( a practice known as "tagging").

D) Nonargument.

E) Argument; conclusion: A Belgian artist known as Plug ... in public places.

Answer 1

D