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NEW QUESTION 67
The_________of biographies of antebellum capitalists is particularly striking in contrast with the abundance of life stones of industrialists in later eras.
- A. triteness
- B. paucity
- C. dearth
- D. banality
- E. brevity
- F. utility
Answer: B,C
NEW QUESTION 68
"Old woman," grumbled the burly white man who had just heard Sojourner Truth speak, "do you think your talk about slavery does any good? I don't care any more for your talk than I do for the bite of a flea." The tall, imposing black woman turned her piercing eyes on him. "Perhaps not," she answered, "but I'll keep you scratching." The little incident of the 1840s sums up all that Sojourner Truth was: utterly dedicated to spreading her message, afraid of no one, forceful and witty in speech. Yet forty years earlier, who could have suspected that a spindly slave girl growing up in a damp cellar in upstate New York would become one of the most remarkable women in American history? Her name then was Isabella (many slaves had no last names), and by the time she was fourteen she had seen both parents die of cold and hunger. She herself had been sold several times. By 1827, when New York freed its slaves, she had married and borne five children. The first hint of Isabella's fighting spirit came soon afterwards, when her youngest son was illegally seized and sold. She marched to the courthouse and badgered officials until her son was returned to her. In 1843, inspired by religion, she changed her name to Sojourner (meaning "one who stays briefly") Truth, and, with only pennies in her purse, set out to preach against slavery. From New England to Minnesota she trekked, gaining a reputation for her plain but powerful and moving words. Incredibly, despite being black and female (only white males were expected to be public speakers), she drew thousands to town halls, tents, and churches to hear her powerful, deep-voiced pleas on equality for blacks-and for women. Often she had to face threatening hoodlums. Once she stood before armed bullies and sang a hymn to them. Awed by her courage and her commanding presence, they sheepishly retreated. During the Civil War she cared for homeless ex-slaves in Washington. President Lincoln invited her to the White House to bestow praise on her. Later, she petitioned Congress to help former slaves get land in the West. Even in her old age, she forced the city of Washington to integrate its trolley cars so that black and white could ride together. Shortly before her death at eighty-six, she was asked what kept her going. "I think of the great things," replied Sojourner.
She traveled from New England to ...
- A. Virginia
- B. Minnesota
- C. Canada
- D. Alaska
- E. California
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 69
SKI : SNOW
- A. gold : putt
- B. skate : ice
- C. ride : horse
- D. drive : car
- E. dance : step
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 70 
If , then X
- A. Option D
- B. Option A
- C. Option B
- D. Option C
- E. Option E
Answer: E
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In combining the four fractions, cancel all variables except a (in the numerator) and e (in the denominator),
leaving To isolate x on one side of the equation, multiply both sides by :
NEW QUESTION 71
FISH : AQUARIUM ::
- A. stew : cauldron
- B. lions : den
- C. birds: aviary
- D. insects : ground
- E. automobile : garage
Answer: C
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This is a "place or environment for" analogy. FISH are kept in an AQUARIUM, an environment created by humans. Birds are kept in an aviary, also an environment created by humans. Lions live in dens, and insects live in the ground, but these environments are natural - they're not human created. An automobile can be kept in a garage, but an automobile has no natural environment.
NEW QUESTION 72
SULLEN : BROOD
- A. lethargic : cavort
- B. regal : cringe
- C. despondent : laugh
- D. poised : blunder
- E. docile : obey
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 73
The village of Vestmannaeyjar, in the far northern country of Iceland, is as bright and clean and up-to-date as any American or Canadian suburb. It is located on the island of Heimaey, just off the mainland. One January night in 1973, however, householders were shocked from their sleep. In some backyards red-hot liquid was spurting from the ground.
Flaming "skyrockets" shot up and over the houses. The island's volcano, Helgafell, silent for seven thousand years, was violently erupting! Luckily, the island's fishing fleet was in port, and within twenty-four hours almost everyone was ferried to the mainland. But then the agony of the island began in earnest. As in a nightmare, fountains of burning lava spurted three hundred feet high. Black, baseball-size cinders rained down. An evilsmelling, eye-burning, throat-searing cloud of smoke and gas erupted into the air, and a river of lava flowed down the mountain. The constant shriek of escaping steam was punctuated by ear- splitting explosions. As time went on, the once pleasant village of Vestmannaeyjar took on a weird aspect.
Its street lamps still burning against the long Arctic night, the town lay under a thick blanket of cinders. All that could be seen above the ten-foot black drifts were the tips of street signs. Some houses had collapsed under the weight of cinders; others had burst into flames as the heat ignited their oil storage tanks. Lighting the whole lurid scene, fire continued to shoot from the mouth of the looming volcano. The eruption continued for six months. Scientists and reporters arrived from around the world to observe the awesome natural event. But the town did not die that easily. In July, when the eruption ceased, the people of Heimaey Island returned to assess the chances of rebuilding their homes and lives. They found tons of ash covering the ground. The Icelanders are a tough people, however, accustomed to the strange and violent nature of their Arctic land. They dug out their homes. They even used the cinders to build new roads and airport runways. Now the new homes of Heimaey are warmed from water pipes heated by molten lava.
The island's volcano had been inactive for ...
- A. seven hundred years
- B. seven thousand months
- C. seventy decades
- D. seventy years
- E. seven thousand years
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 74
In triangle ABC, AB = 9 and BC = 12- Which of the following values could be the perimeter of triangle ABC?
Indicate all such values.
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
- F. 5
Answer: A,B,D
NEW QUESTION 75
The relevance of the literary personality-a writer's distinctive attitudes, concerns, and artistic choices-to the analysis of a literary work is being scrutinized by various schools of contemporary criticism.
Deconstmctionists view the literary personality, like the writer's biographical personality, as irrelevant. The proper focus of literary analysis, they argue, is a work's intertextuality (interrelationship with other texts), subtexts (unspoken, concealed. or repressed discourses), and metatexts (self-referential aspects), not a perception of a writer's verbal and aesthetic "fingerprints." New historicists also devalue the literary personality, since, in their emphasis on a work's historical context, they credit a writer with only those insights and ideas that were generally available when the writer lived. However, to readers interested in literary detective work-say scholars of classical (Greek and Roman! literature who wish to reconstruct damaged texts or deduce a work's authorship- the literary personality sometimes provides vital clues.
It can be inferred from the passage that on the issue of how to analyze a literary work, the new historic its would most likely agree with the deconstructionists that
- A. the writer's literary personality has little or no relevance
- B. the writer's insights and ideas should be understood in terms of the writer's historical context
- C. the critic should primarily focus on intertextuality. subtexts, and metatexts
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 76 
For how many of the five neighborhoods did the ratio of the foreign-born population to the total population of the neighborhood increase from 1930 to 1990?
- A. None
- B. Two
- C. Four
- D. Three
- E. One
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 77
WAR : OFFENSIVE ::
- A. slumber : dream
- B. stadium : soccer
- C. game : poker
- D. school : student
- E. waterfall : river
Answer: A
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This is an "environment for" analogy. An OFFENSIVE (a noun here) is an event - a planned attack - that typically occurs during a WAR. Similarly, a dream is an event that typically occurs during slumber(deep sleep). As for choice (D), soccer is an event that might take place in a stadium. But to say that soccer usually occurs in a stadium would be an overstatement. Also, a stadium is a physical place, whereas WAR and slumber are events.
NEW QUESTION 78
The geographer held a (i)________view of the succession of theoretical trends (environmental determinism, spatial determinism, and various types of critical theory) in her field, maintaining that theory can (n)________what is transpiring in a complex environment by focusing excessively on the favored schemes and variables of the moment.
- A. magnify
- B. exacerbate
- C. obfuscate
- D. sanguine
- E. self-contradictory
- F. deprecatory
Answer: C,F
NEW QUESTION 79
If n is a positive integer such that 51 is a factor of //. which of the following could be the units digit of n ?
Indicate all such digits.
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
- F. 5
- G. 6
- H. 8
9 - I. 7
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 80
The fossil record reveals innumerable instances of environmental _______ by which one can draw an analogy between the evolution of life and a tree's branches, a few of which _______ but most of which branch again and again.
- A. safeguards . . wither and die
- B. changes . . produce leaves
- C. calamities . . end abruptly
- D. events . . intertwine
- E. adaptations . . progress linearly
Answer: E
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The signpost phrase in this sentence is "by which." What precedes this key phrase must adequately explain the analogy that follows it. Choice B fits the bill. In the context of evolution, many organisms have continually adapted to environmental changes, resulting in a large variety of species (in a continual branching manner); in other words, for most organisms, evolution is not linear
NEW QUESTION 81
Conflict had existed between Spain and England since the 1570s. England wanted a share of the wealth that Spain had been taking from the lands it had claimed in the Americas.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, encouraged her staunch admiral of the navy, Sir Francis Drake, to raid Spanish ships and towns. Though these raids were on a small scale, Drake achieved dramatic success, adding gold and silver to England's treasury and diminishing Spain's omnipotence. Religious differences also caused conflict between the two countries. Whereas Spain was Roman Catholic, most of England had become Protestant.
King Philip II of Spain wanted to claim the throne and make England a Catholic country again. To satisfy his ambition and also to retaliate against England's theft of his gold and silver, King Philip began to build his fleet of warships, the Armada, in January 1586.
Philip intended his fleet to be indestructible. In addition to building new warships, he marshaled one hundred and thirty sailing vessels of all types and recruited more than nineteen thousand robust soldiers and eight thousand sailors. Although some of his ships lacked guns and others lacked ammunition, Philip was convinced that his Armada could withstand any battle with England. The martial Armada set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on May 9,1588, but bad weather forced it back to port. The voyage resumed on July 22 after the weather became more stable. The Spanish fleet met the smaller, faster, and more maneuverable English ships in battle off the coast of Plymouth, England, first on July 31 and again on August 2. The two battles left Spain vulnerable, having lost several ships and with its ammunition depleted. On August 7, while the Armada lay at anchor on the French side of the Strait of Dover, England sent eight burning ships into the midst of the Spanish fleet to set it on fire. Blocked on one side, the Spanish ships could only drift away, their crews in panic and disorder. Before the Armada could regroup, the English attacked again on August 8. Although the Spaniards made a valiant effort to fight back, the fleet suffered extensive damage.
During the eight hours of battle, the Armada drifted perilously close to the rocky coastline. At the moment when it seemed that the Spanish ships would be driven onto the English shore, the wind shifted, and the Armada drifted out into the North Sea. The Spaniards recognized the superiority of the English fleet and returned home, defeated.
Sir Francis Drake added wealth to the treasury and diminished Spain's ____.
- A. answer not available in article
- B. territory
- C. treaties
- D. unrestricted growth
- E. unlimited power
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 82
There are far too many (i)________in the report, such as incorrect data (albeit on (ii)________points).
inconsistency between the text and related tables, and discrepancies between the citations and the references.
- A. little errors
- B. perplexing
- C. numerous
- D. minor
- E. unsupported generalizations
- F. stylistic infelicities
Answer: A,D
NEW QUESTION 83
Marie Curie was one of the most accomplished scientists in history. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered radium, an element widely used for treating cancer, and studied uranium and other radioactive substances. Pierre and Marie's amicable collaboration later helped to unlock the secrets of the atom. Marie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, where her father was a professor of physics. At the early age, she displayed a brilliant mind and a blithe personality. Her great exuberance for learning prompted her to continue with her studies after high school. She became disgruntled, however, when she learned that the university in Warsaw was closed to women.
Determined to receive a higher education, she defiantly left Poland and in 1891 entered the Sorbonne, a French university, where she earned her master's degree and doctorate in physics. Marie was fortunate to have studied at the Sorbonne with some of the greatest scientists of her day, one of whom was Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre were married in 1895 and spent many productive years working together in the physics laboratory. A short time after they discovered radium, Pierre was killed by a horse-drawn wagon in
1906. Marie was stunned by this horrible misfortune and endured heartbreaking anguish. espondently she recalled their close relationship and the joy that they had shared in scientific research. The fact that she had two young daughters to raise by herself greatly increased her distress. Curie's feeling of desolation finally began to fade when she was asked to succeed her husband as a physics professor at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to be given a professorship at the world-famous university. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for isolating radium. Although Marie Curie eventually suffered a fatal illness from her long exposure to radium, she never became disillusioned about her work. Regardless of the consequences, she had dedicated herself to science and to revealing the mysteries of the physical world.
Her ____ began to fade when she returned to the Sorbonne to succeed her husband.
- A. ambition
- B. anger
- C. misfortune
- D. disappointment
- E. wretchedness
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 84
A drawer contains four pairs of socks: two gray pairs and two blue pairs. If two pairs are selected at random, what is the probability of choosing a blue pair and a gray pair?
- A. Option A
- B. Option D
- C. Option B
- D. Option C
- E. Option E
Answer: A
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There are six possible two-pair combinations: (B1-B2), (B1-G1), (B1-G2), (B2-G1), (B2-G2), (G1-2). Since
four of the six combinations involve removing one blue pair and one gray pair, the probability is
NEW QUESTION 85 
The table shows the distribution of daily low and daily high temperatures in a certain location during each of the 30 days in April. Recorded low and high temperatures were rounded to the nearest Fahrenheit degree (F°). What was the range of daily high temperatures during the month of April?
- A. 51 degrees
- B. 10 degrees
- C. 14 degrees
- D. 15 degrees
- E. It cannot be determined from the information given.
Answer: E
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The table does not indicate the highest temperature recorded during April, and so it is not possible to determine the range of temperatures for April.
NEW QUESTION 86
Lohr's (i)_________the trappings of literary celebrity creates a Romantic aura tor him: by distancing himself from all public discourse about himself or his work. Lohr becomes an even greater, albeit more (ii)_________.
celebrity than most authors manage in all their interviews and memoirs.
- A. inability to renounce
- B. refusal to wear
- C. appealing
- D. renowned
- E. eagerness to understand
- F. mysterious
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION 87
The poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African Americans of the southern United States. Although Dunbar's works were both popular with readers and acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the poet James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the
1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of Dunbar's works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning scholars' use of mythic, psychological, and historical considerations in evaluating Dunbar's works?
- A. Such use challenges the claim that dialect poetry is well suited to producing effects of pathos and humor.
- B. Such use suggests that earlier twentieth-century evaluations of Dunbar's poetry may have been too negative.
- C. Such use suggests that the initial reception accorded Dunbar's poetry may have been too positive.
- D. Such use supports the claim that Dunbar's poetry was aesthetically more limited when written in dialect.
- E. Such use disputes the claim that Dunbar's work failed to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 88
Recent research has identified_________bats' navigational tool, echolocation: smooth, vertical surfaces such as the metal or glass plates on buildings can trick a bat into thinking it is flying in open air.
- A. an explanation for
- B. a principle of
- C. a deficiency in
- D. a component of
- E. a limitation of
- F. a symptom of
Answer: C,E
NEW QUESTION 89
Since it was committed to the idea of science as an international, politically neutral enterprise, the Royal Society of London refused to_________members from enemy nations during the world wars of the twentieth century.
- A. betray
- B. condemn
- C. endorse
- D. oust
- E. sanction
- F. expel
Answer: D,F
NEW QUESTION 90
DISPENSARY : REAPER ::
- A. whip : harness
- B. chisel : mortar
- C. dye : seal
- D. thermometer : aspirin
- E. anesthetic : toxin
Answer: B
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This is an "opposing function" analogy. A DISPENSARY is a distribution center for medicines, and a REAPER is a farming machine that cuts and gathers crops. Since a dispensary distributes but a reaper gathers, they serve opposing functions. A chisel is used to break apart material such as stone; mortar is used to bond stones or bricks; hence, they also serve opposing functions. Moreover, in both pairs, the relationship involves disbursing versus joining, further strengthening the analogy
NEW QUESTION 91
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