Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies

Understanding the argument -
A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Fact.
Of these, ten called the “select plays,” are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also appear in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of Euripides’ best-known works, including the Medea. Fact
The other eight, which appear only in L, are called "alphabeticals" because they appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. - Fact
The Electra is one of the alphabetical. - Fact

Option Elimination -

A. Only Euripides’ best-known works are accompanied by ancient commentaries in extant medieval manuscripts. - No. There can very well be others. We can't infer this from the argument.

B. The select plays are accompanied by ancient commentaries because they were the best known of Euripides’ works. - The reason is not mentioned in the argument. Wrong.

C. No commentaries were written about Euripides’ Electra
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 03 Jul 2008, 21:06 • Replies 25 • Views 51329

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