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NEW QUESTION 150
RAIL:
- A. esteem
- B. acquiesce
- C. conspire
- D. compromise
- E. tout
Answer: B
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To RAIL is to "complain or denounce vehemently" (as in "rail against injustice"), contrary to acquiesce (agree, comply, or consent, usually by silence or inaction).
NEW QUESTION 151
The perimeter of rectangle ABCD is 20. and the length of each side is an integer. Which of the following values could be the length of diagonal AC?
Indicate all such values.
A)
B)
C)
D)
- A. Option D
- B. Option A
- C. Option C
- D. Option B
Answer: A,B,C,D
NEW QUESTION 152 
- A. The two quantities are equal.
- B. Quantity A is greater.
- C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- D. Quantity B is greater.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 153
VERIFY : TRUE
- A. ratify : angry
- B. mortify : relaxed
- C. signify : cheap
- D. purify : clean
- E. terrify : confident
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 154
Late Victorian and modern ideas of culture are indebted to Matthew Arnold, who, largely through his Culture and Anarchy (1869), placed the word at the center of debates about the goals of intellectual life and humanistic society. Arnold defined culture as "the pursuit of perfection by getting to know the best which has been thought and said." Through this knowledge, Arnold hoped, we can turn "a fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits." Although Arnold helped to define the purposes of the liberal arts curriculum in the century following the publication of Culture, three concrete forms of dissent from his views have had considerable impact of their own. The first protests Arnold's fearful designation of
"anarchy" as culture's enemy, viewing this dichotomy simply as another version of the struggle between a privileged power structure and radical challenges to its authority. But while Arnold certainly tried to define the arch - the legitimizing order of value - against the anarch of existentialist democracy, he himself was plagued in his soul by the blind arrogances of the reactionary powers in his world. The writer who regarded the contemporary condition with such apprehension in Culture is the poet who wrote "Dover Beach," not an ideologue rounding up all the usual modern suspects. Another form of opposition saw Arnold's culture as a perverse perpetuation of classical and literary learning, outlook, and privileges in a world where science had become the new arch and from which any substantively new order of thinking must develop. At the center of the "two cultures" debate were the goals of the formal educational curriculum, the principal vehicle through which Arnoldian culture operates. However, Arnold himself had viewed culture as enacting its life in a much more broadly conceived set of institutions. A third form is so-called "multiculturalism," a movement aimed largely at gaining recognition for voices and visions that Arnoldian culture has implicitly suppressed. In educational practice, multiculturalists are interested in deflating the imperious authority that
"high culture" exercises over curriculum while bringing into play the principle that we must learn what is representative, for we have overemphasized what is exceptional. Though the multiculturalists' conflict with Arnoldian culture has clear affinities with the radical critique, multiculturalism actually affirms Arnold by returning us more specifically to a tension inherent in the idea of culture rather than to the cultureanarchy dichotomy. The social critics, defenders of science, and multiculturalists insist that Arnold's culture is simply a device for ordering us about. Instead, however, it is designed to register the gathering of ideological clouds on the horizon. There is no utopian motive in Arnold's celebration of perfection.
Perfection mattered to Arnold as the only background against which we could form a just image of our actual circumstances, just as we can conceive finer sunsets and unheard melodies.
The author's primary concern in the passage is to
- A. argue against those who have opposed Arnold's ideas
- B. explain why Arnold considered the pursuit of perfection to be the essence of culture
- C. examine the different views of culture that have emerged since the eighteenth century
- D. trace Arnold's influence on the liberal arts educational curriculum
- E. describe Arnold's conception of culture
Answer: A
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The author's threshold purpose, articulated in the final sentence of the first paragraph, is to identify the significant forms of dissent to Arnoldian culture. But the author proceeds to do more than merely identify and describe these forms of dissent; the author is also critical of the dissenters, for example, because they have misunderstood Arnold. Choice A embraces both the author's threshold and ultimate concerns.
NEW QUESTION 155
Exhibit.
In the figure above, the circle has center O, and AB and AD are tangent to the circle. If the degree measures of angles ABC and ADC are 20 and 40. respectively, what is the value of x + y.
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 156
The origin of the attempt to distinguish early from modern music and to establish the canons of performance practice for each lies in the eighteenth century. In the first half of that century, when Telemann and Bach ran the collegium musicum in Leipzig, Germany, they performed their own and other modern music. In the German universities of the early twentieth century, however, the reconstituted collegium musicum devoted itself to performing music from the centuries before the beginning of the
"standard repertory," by which was understood music from before the time of Bach and Handel. Alongside this modern collegium musicum, German musicologists developed the historical sub-discipline known as
"performance practice," which included the deciphering of obsolete musical notation and its transcription into modern notation, the study of obsolete instruments, and the re-establishment of lost oral traditions associated with those forgotten repertories. The cutoff date for this study was understood to be around
1750, the year of Bach's death, since the music of Bach, Handel, Telemann and their contemporaries did call for obsolete instruments and voices and unannotated performing traditions - for instance, the spontaneous realization of vocal and instrumental melodic ornamentation. Furthermore, with a few exceptions, late baroque music had ceased to be performed for nearly a century, and the orally transmitted performing traditions associated with it were forgotten as a result. In contrast, the notation in the music of Haydn and Mozart from the second half of the eighteenth century was more complete than in the earlier styles, and the instruments seemed familiar, so no "special" knowledge appeared necessary. Also, the music of Haydn and Mozart, having never ceased to be performed, had maintained some kind of oral tradition of performance practice. Beginning around 1960, however, early-music performers began to encroach upon the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Why? Scholars studying performance practice had discovered that the living oral traditions associated with the Viennese classics frequently could not be traced to the eighteenth century and that there were nearly as many performance mysteries to solve for music after 1750 as for earlier repertories. Furthermore, more and more young singers and instrumentalists became attracted to early music, and as many of them graduated from student- amateur to professional status, the technical level of early-music performances took a giant leap forward. As professional early-music groups, building on these developments, expanded their repertories to include later music, the mainstream protested vehemently. The differences between the two camps extended beyond the question of which instruments to use to the more critical matter of style and delivery. At the heart of their disagreement is whether historical knowledge about performing traditions is a prerequisite for proper interpretation of music or whether it merely creates an obstacle to inspired musical tradition.
Which of the following statements, if true, would best support the author's explanation for the encroachment by the early-musicians upon the music of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven?
- A. Most instrumentalists are attracted to early music because of the opportunities to play obsolete instruments.
- B. The music of these composers is notated more completely than is the music of Bach and Handel.
- C. The early-musicians and the mainstream both prefer the same style and delivery of music.
- D. Unannotated performing traditions associated with these composers were distinct from those associated with pre-1750 works.
- E. The mainstream approved of the manner in which the early-musicians treated the music of Bach and Handel.
Answer: D
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According to the passage, one reason for the encroachment was that some of the oral traditions associated with the Viennese classics (the works of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven) could not be traced back to the eighteenth century. Choice A.supports this point by providing specific evidence that this was indeed the case.
NEW QUESTION 157 
indicate all such statements.
- A.
- B.
- C.
Answer: A,B,C
NEW QUESTION 158 
- A. The two quantities are equal.
- B. Quantity A is greater.
- C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- D. Quantity B is greater.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 159
The iacl thai ihcre are so many varieties of youthful dissent indicates that there is considerably less_________to this counterculture than has been suggested.
- A. hypocrisy
- B. relevance
- C. coherence
- D. deeeneraev
- E. spontaneity
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 160 
- A. The quantities are equal;
- B. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- C. The quantity in Column A is greater;
- D. The quantity in Column B is greater;
Answer: A
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There's no need to perform any calculations here. Comparing one cube-box with the other, notice that all measurements are proportional. Hence the number of cubes that can be packed into the boxes must be the same.
NEW QUESTION 161
PERTURB:
- A. sedate
- B. stagnate
- C. postpone
- D. halt
- E. deactivate
Answer: A
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To PERTURB is to "disturb or agitate," where as sedate means "calm or quiet."
NEW QUESTION 162
If 6 workers can build 4 cars in 2 days, then how many days would it take 8 workers to build 6 cars?
- A. Option D
- B. Option A
- C. Option E
- D. Option C
- E. Option B
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 163 
- A. The two quantities are equal.
- B. Quantity A is greater.
- C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- D. Quantity B is greater.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 164
The importance of the Bill of Rights in twentieth-century United States law and politics has led some historians to search for the "original meaning" of its most controversial clauses. This approach. known as
"originalism." presumes that each right codified in the Bill of Rights had au independent history that can be studied in isolation from the histories of other rights, and its proponents ask how formulations of the Bill of Rights in 1791 reflected developments in specific areas of legal thinking at that time. Legal and constitutional historians, for example, have found originalism especially useful in the study of provisions of the Bill of Rights that were innovative by eighteenth-century standards, such as the Fourth Amendment's broadly termed protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Recent calls in the legal and political arena for a return to a "jurisprudence of original intention." however, have made it a matter of much more than purely scholarly interest when originalists insist that a clause's true meaning was fixed at the moment of its adoption, or maintain that only those rights explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution deserve constitutional recognition and protection. These two claims seemingly lend support to the notion that an interpreter must apply fixed definitions of a fixed number of rights to contemporary issues, for the claims imply that the central problem of rights in the Revolutionary era was to precisely identity, enumerate, and define those rights that Americans felt were crucial to protecting their liberty.
Both claims, however, are questionable from the perspective of a strictly historical inquiry, however sensible they may seem from the vantage point of contemporary jurisprudence. Even though originalists are correct in claiming that the search for original meaning is inherently historical, historians would not normally seek.
The passage suggests that a historian conducting a strictly historical inquiry would make which of the following assumptions when studying the Bill of Rights?
- A. Legistators of the Revolutionary era were preoccupied with defining and enumerating those rights that were crucial to individual liberty.
- B. It is possible to determine why a particular clause was included in the Bill of Rights.
- C. Developments in thinking about individual rights ended after the codification of those rights.
- D. The framers of the Bill of Rights sought to define each right in strict and narrow terms.
- E. The results of historical inquiry into the true meaning of its clauses must be applied to contemporary issues.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 165
BASKETBALL : HOOP
- A. tennis : net
- B. pool : cue
- C. croquet : wicket
- D. hockey : puck
- E. baseball : bat
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 166
The victory of the small Greek democracy of Athens over the mighty Persian empire in 490 B C is one of the most famous events in history. Darius, king of the Persian empire, was furious because Athens had interceded for the other Greek city-states in revolt against Persian domination. In anger the king sent an enormous army to defeat Athens.
He thought it would take drastic steps to pacify the rebellious part of the empire. Persia was ruled by one man. In Athens, however, all citizens helped to rule. Ennobled by this participation, Athenians were prepared to die for their city-state. Perhaps this was the secret of the remarkable victory at Marathon, which freed them from Persian rule. On their way to Marathon, the Persians tried to fool some Greek city- states by claiming to have come in peace. The frightened citizens of Delos refused to believe this. Not wanting to abet the conquest of Greece, they fled from their city and did not return until the Persians had left. They were wise, for the Persians next conquered the city of Etria and captured its people. Tiny Athens stood alone against Persia. The Athenian people went to their sanctuaries. There they prayed for deliverance. They asked their gods to expedite their victory. The Athenians refurbished their weapons and moved to the plain of Marathon, where their little band would meet the Persians. At the last moment, soldiers from Plataea reinforced the Athenian troops. The Athenian army attacked, and Greek citizens fought bravely. The power of the mighty Persians was offset by the love that the Athenians had for their city. Athenians defeated the Persians in archery and hand combat.
Greek soldiers seized Persian ships and burned them, and the Persians fled in terror.
Herodotus, a famous historian, reports that 6400 Persians died, compared with only 192 Athenians.
Darius took drastic steps to ___ the rebellious Athenians.
- A. weaken
- B. placate
- C. calm
- D. destroy
- E. answer not available
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 167
The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared_________-
- A. complacent
- B. unsated
- C. beguiled
- D. phlegmatic
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 168
Mary Beard notes that the classical past has never been________ by only one political tendency or party: the classics have been used in support of revolutions as well as dictatorships.
- A. co-opted
- B. endured
- C. critiqued
- D. forsworn
- E. relinquished
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 169 
- A. The two quantities are equal.
- B. Quantity A is greater.
- C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- D. Quantity B is greater.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 170
The arithmetic mean (average) of two numbers is . If the first number is Q, which of the following Expressions represents the other number?
- A. Option B
- B. Option E
- C. Options D
- D. Option A
- E. Option C
Answer: D
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Apply the formula for determining arithmetic mean (called AM below), or simple average. Letting x equal the other number, solve for x:
NEW QUESTION 171
HAVOC : DEVASTATION
- A. turmoil : order
- B. farce : sham
- C. timidity : audacity
- D. clarification : mystification
- E. surplus : shortage
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 172 
- A. The quantities are equal;
- B. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- C. The quantity in Column A is greater;
- D. The quantity in Column B is greater;
Answer: A
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The price of 100 apples (4 bags of 25) is $28 (4 x $7), the same as the price for 100 pears. In other words, the price of apples is the same as the price of pears. Accordingly, to compare the two quantities you can simply compare the total numbers of fruit pieces. You can see that the totals are the same: 178 + 461.
Hence, the two quantities are equal.
NEW QUESTION 173
HAND : GNARLED ::
- A. flower : crushed
- B. tire : flat
- C. brow : creased
- D. tree : tall
- E. foot : cramped
Answer: C
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This is a type of "symptom or manifestation" analogy. A HAND may become GNARLED (knotted and twisted) with age, just as a brow may become creased (wrinkled or ridged) with age. Gnarls and creases are each a manifestation of gradual deterioration. Since a tire goes flat abruptly and for one of many possible reasons, choice E.is not as strong an analogy as choice (D).
NEW QUESTION 174
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