Multiple choice

Pal Shinde, a renowned stage actor and the founder of the Shinde's Acting Academy, trained countless actors, including dozens of National and Filmfare award winners, several Sahitya Academy award winners and hundreds of successful working actors. Clearly, the skills necessary for success in the profession of acting can be learned.

Which one of the following is an assumption upon which the argument is based?

  1. Pal Shinde's Academy attracted actors from all over the world.

  2. The actors who learned techniques from Pal Shinde were already known to be quite successful.

  3. One or more of the actors who learned acting techniques at Pal Shinde's Academy were not successful actors before arriving there.

  4. Actors who go on to be quite successful often come out of prestigious acting academies.

  5. None of these
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Explanation

To verify that this is a necessary assumption, use Negation Test. If all the actors were successful to begin with, then Pal Shinde would not have taught them anything, and the author could not reach the conclusion.

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