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NEW QUESTION 27
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 am! 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, psyclwlogical. 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 Litrary critics' evaluations of Dunbar's poetry?
- A. During Dunbar's lifetime, critics did not commonly evaluate his works according to aesthetic criteria.
- B. In the period between the First World War and the 1970s, critics did not commonly evaluate Dunbar's works in terms of psychological and historical considerations.
- C. A reversal of a negative critical trend led to wider popularity of Dunbar's works among the reading public in the 1970s.
- D. In the 1970s, scholars began to reevaluate Dunbar's work in the light of James Weldon Johnson's criticism of the limitations of dialect poetry.
- E. Negative critical evaluations of Dunbar's poetry on social grounds caused his work to become less popular with the reading public in the period following the First World War.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 28
The average (arithmetic mean) and the median of a set of 5 numbers is 0. and the set contains at least one number that is not equal to 0. Which of the following statements must be true?
- A. Exactly one of the numbers is negative.
- B. Exactly two of the numbers are negative.
- C. The set has the same number of positive numbers as negative numbers.
- D. Exactly one of the numbers is not equal to 0.
- E. The sum of the nonzero numbers in the set is 0.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 29
PASSIVITY:
- A. lack of restraint
- B. aggression
- C. vitality
- D. confidence
- E. disrespect
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
One meaning of PASSIVITY is submission (the condition of being submissive) the opposite of aggression.
NEW QUESTION 30
Laws protecting intellectual properly are intended to stimulate creativity, yet some tonus of creative work have never enjoyed legal protection-a situation that ought to be of great interest. If we see certain forms of creative endeavor (1)_________as a result of uncontrolled copying, we might decide tot (ii )_________intellectual property law. Conversely, if unprotected creative work (iii)_________in the absence of legal rules against copying, we would do well to know how such flourishing is sustained.
- A. proliferating
- B. languishing
- C. jettison
- D. openly invites imitation
- E. extend
- F. manages to thrive
- G. relax
- H. declines in originality
- I. diversifying
Answer: B,F,H
NEW QUESTION 31
Exhibit.
For what number of pets per household is the total number of households the least?
- A. or more
- B. 0
- C. 1
- D. 2
- E. 3
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 32
A circle is inscribed in a regular hexagon that is inscribed in a circle. What is the ratio of the area of the smaller circle to the area of the larger circle?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
- A. Option A
- B. Option D
- C. Option C
- D. Option E
- E. Option B
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 33
Writing for the New York Times in 1971. Saul Braun claimed that - todays superhero is about as much like his predecessors as today's child is like his parents." In an unprecedented article on the state of American comics,
"Shazam! Here Comes Captain Relevant. Braun wove a story of an industry whose former glory producing jingoistic fantasies of superhuman power in the 1930s and 1940s had given way to a canny interest in revealing the power structures against which ordinary people and heroes alike struggled following World War II Quoting a description of a course on *Comparative Comics" at Brown University, he wrote, 'New heroes are different-they ponder moral questions, have emotional differences, and are just as neurotic as real people.
Captain America openly sympathizes with campus radicals.. Lois Lane apes John Howard Griffin and turns herself black to study racism, and everybody battles to save the environment."" Five years earlier. Esquire had presaged Braun s claims about comic books: generational appeal, dedicating a spread to the popularity of superhero comics among university students in their special 'College Issue." As one student explained. "My favorite is the Hulk. I identify with him, he's the outcast against the institution.'1 Only months after the NW York Times article saw print. Rolling Stone published a six-page expose on the inner workings of Marvel Comics, while Ms. Magazine emblazoned Wonder Woman on the cover of its premier issue-declaring s Wonder Woman for President'' no less-and devoted an article to the origins of the latter-day feminist superhero.
Where little more than a decade before comics had signaled the moral and aesthetic degradation of American culture, by 1971 they had come of age as America's "native art::: taught on Ivy League campuses, studied by European scholars and filmmakers, and translated and sold around the world, they were now taken up as a new generation's critique of American society. The concatenation of these sentiments among such diverse publications revealed that the growing popularity and public interest in comics (and comic-book superheroes) spanned a wide demographic spectrum, appealing to middle-class urbamtes, college-age men. members of the counterculture, and feminists alike. At the heart of this newfound admiration for comics lay a glaring yet largely unremarked contradiction: the cultural regeneration of the comic-book medium was made possible by the revamping of a key American fantasy figure, the superhero, even as that figure was being lauded for its realism"" and social relevance."" As the title of Braun's article suggests, in the early 1970s, "relevance" became a popular buzzword denoting a shift in comic-book content from oblique narrative metaphors for social problems toward direct representations of racism and sexism, urban blight, and political corruption.
In the first paragraph, the author of the passage develops his argument primarily by
- A. pointing out the limitations of earlier approaches
- B. highlighting the merits of a particular critical framework
- C. refuting a generalization by appealing to an individual case
- D. tracing different examples of a trend to the influence of a single source
- E. citing evidence from a range of published sources
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 34
Instances of "galactic cannibalism"-mergers in which large galaxies completely consume smaller ones-may be fairly common. Tidal forces produced by the Milky Way's powerful gravity, for example, appear to be dismantling and engulfing a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius, producing large clumps and streamers of stars connecting the two galaxies. Astronomers have also observed two dense clusters of stars and gas at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy, an apparent "double nucleus" that may contain the remnant of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy. But this Twin-lobed appearance could also be created by two parts of a single nucleus bisected by a lane of dust. Scientists believe that only about 25 percent of such apparent double nuclei actually represent galactic cannibalism. Many of the rest result from the illusion of proximity that occurs when objects at different distances appear along the same line of sight: others consist of debris from galactic
"collisions." in which one galaxy has passed through another without merging, causing waves of new star formation.
According to the passage, a true double nucleus may be produced by the
- A. separation of a single nucleus into two parts by a lane of dust
- B. waves of new star formation resulting from an instance of galactic cannibalism
- C. merging of two galaxies of approximately equal size
- D. incorporation of a dwarf galaxy into a larger galaxy
- E. collision of two dwarf galaxies
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 35
In nearly all human populations, a majority of individuals can taste the artificially synthesized chemical phenylthiocarbonide (PTC). However, the percentage varies dramatically - from as low as sixty percent in India to as high as ninety-five percent in AfricA. That this polymorphism is observed in non-human primates as well indicates a long evolutionary history which, although obviously not acting on PTC, might reflect evolutionary selection for taste discrimination of other, more significant bitter substances, such as certain toxic plants. A somewhat more puzzling human polymorphism is the genetic variability in earwax, or cerumen, which is observed in two varieties. Among European populations, ninety percent of individuals have a sticky yellow variety rather than a dry, gray one, whereas in northern China these numbers are approximately the reverse. Perhaps like PTC variability, cerumen variability is an incidental expression of something more adaptively significant. Indeed, the observed relationship between cerumen and odorous bodily secretions, to which non-human primates and, to a lesser extent humans, pay attention suggests that during the course of human evolution genes affecting body secretions, including cerumen, came under selective influence.
It can be inferred from the passage that human populations vary considerably in their
- A. vulnerability to certain toxins found in plants
- B. ability to discern bitterness in taste
- C. ability to assimilate artificial chemicals
- D. sensitivity to certain bodily odors
- E. capacity for hearing
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
In the passage's first paragraph, the author points out that the ability to taste PTC varies among human opulations, then in the final sentence of that paragraph refers to "other, more significant bitter substances." It can reasonably be inferred from these two statements, considered together, that PTC is a bitter substance.
NEW QUESTION 36
Cole makes the argument that while some advocates of government transparency seem to treat any exposure of state secrets as an (i)_________. that position is (ii)_________; there are many legitimate bases for (hi)_________ disclosures. Cole contends, particularly when they reveal the identities of sources and methods of foreign intelligence.
- A. condoning
- B. commonplace
- C. unmitigated good
- D. understandable
- E. abuse of power
- F. extolling
- G. ambiguous act
- H. untenable
- I. condemning
Answer: C,H,I
NEW QUESTION 37
Societal progress usually comes about through (i) _______ and challenge - that is, when people point out the mistakes of those who wield power; (ii) _______, without our challenging the mistaken notions of established institutions, political (iii) ______ and tyranny would go unchecked.
- A. perseverance
- B. corruption
- C. nevertheless
- D. in fact
- E. oppression
- F. dissension
- G. in addition
- H. back
- I. opposition
Answer: E,F,H
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
In the first sentence, the phrase that is signals that what precedes it should be similar in meaning to what follows it. Pointing out the mistakes of those in power could be characterized either as a challenge or as part of dissention, which means "rebellion or disobedience." The second part of the sentence (following the semicolon) reiterates and expresses more pointedly the idea in the first part. The connecting phrase in fact works well to signal this reiteration. As for blank (iii), oppression (which means "persecution or tyranny") is the only choice that makes sense in context.
NEW QUESTION 38
When positive integer m is divided by 6. the remainder is 4. When positive integer p is divided by 6. the remainder is 5. What is the remainder when the product mp is divided by 6 ?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 39
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. 8
9 - D. 2
- E. 3
- F. 4
- G. 5
- H. 6
- I. 7
Answer: H
NEW QUESTION 40
Exhibit.
What is the total number of cats and the total number of dogs in the households with 4 pets per household if 2 households have 3 cats and 1 dog per household and 2 households have 2 cats and 2 dogs per household?
- A. 10 cats and 6 dogs
- B. 20 cats and 20 dogs
- C. 16 cats and 8 dogs
- D. 30 cats and 10 does
- E. 26 cats and 14 dogs
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 41 
- A. Quantity A is greater.
- B. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- C. Quantity B is greater.
- D. The two quantities are equal.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 42
ROSTRUM : SPEECH ::
- A. office : conference
- B. laboratory : invention
- C. mailbox : letter
- D. arena : match
- E. stove : meal
Answer: D
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
This is a "place for" analogy. One place where a SPEECH might be made is on a ROSTRUM (a platform for public speaking), in front of an audience. Similarly, one place where a contest (between two sports teams, for example) might occur is in an arena, before an audience.
NEW QUESTION 43 
- A. The quantity in Column A is greater;
- B. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- C. The quantities are equal;
- D. The quantity in Column B is greater;
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The problem does not provide the actual weight of any of the three horses, and so it is impossible to make the comparison.
NEW QUESTION 44
The sound of disembodied human breathing in Miyazakrs films is at once a presence, close to the listener s ear. and a ghostly absence due to its lack of a visual_________.
- A. cue
- B. counterpart
- C. background
- D. correlative
- E. image
- F. urgency
Answer: B,D
NEW QUESTION 45
SWEAR : OATH ::
- A. issue : warning
- B. obey : rule
- C. sign : contract
- D. follow : leader
- E. solve : problem
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
This is a "process and product" analogy. You take, or SWEAR, an OATH. Similarly, you execute, or sign, a contract.Strengthening the analogy is that both actions (swearing an oath and signing a contract) are evidence of a promise or commitment for the future.
NEW QUESTION 46
TOPAZ : YELLOW
- A. sapphire : red
- B. diamond : carat
- C. jeweler : clarity
- D. amber : blue
- E. amethyst : purple
Answer: E
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION 47
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