Critical Reasoning: Evaluating a Four-Day Work Week Proposal Quiz — 5 Free Questions

📖 Read the passage, then answer the questions below

A mid-sized software company is considering a proposal to move all its employees from a five-day, forty-hour work week to a four-day, thirty-two-hour work week, with no reduction in pay. Proponents argue that employees who work fewer days report less burnout, that shorter weeks encourage employees to complete essential tasks more efficiently by cutting low-value meetings, and that offering a four-day week would make the company more attractive to job applicants in a competitive hiring market.

Based on a six-month trial in the company's marketing department, the company's leadership team has concluded that adopting a four-day work week company-wide would maintain current productivity levels and improve employee retention, without increasing the company's total wage costs.

Question 1

Consider the following three statements based on the passage: I. The leadership team's conclusion is based on a company-wide, multi-year study. II. Proponents argue that a four-day week would make the company more attractive to job applicants. III. The trial was conducted only in the marketing department. Which of the statements is/are true according to the passage?

Question 2

Which of the following is an assumption underlying the claim that wage costs would not increase?

Question 3

The leadership team's argument assumes which of the following?

Question 4

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the leadership team's conclusion?

Question 5

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument that productivity would be maintained?

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About Critical Reasoning: Evaluating a Four-Day Work Week Proposal

CLAT's Logical Reasoning section tests critical reasoning directly: a short passage lays out an argument, and the questions that follow test whether you can identify its conclusion, its assumptions, and what would strengthen or weaken it -- no prior knowledge of the topic is needed, since every answer follows from the passage itself.

This quiz works through a single original argument about a company's workplace-policy proposal, examining every angle CLAT actually tests: the argument's main conclusion, the assumptions it depends on, evidence that would strengthen or weaken specific claims within it, what can be validly inferred, and a weakness in its reasoning.

The twenty questions include an Assertion-Reason question and a multi-statement combination question alongside the dominant strengthen, weaken, and assumption format, keeping the same variety CLAT itself uses across a single passage.

Only five of the twenty questions are shown on any single attempt, so replaying this quiz brings a genuinely different set of questions rather than the same five memorised by rote.