GRE exams

TEST 1
SECTION 1
Time—30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence aw five lettered words or sets of
words. Choose the words or set of words for/each blank that best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
1. Nonviolent demonstrations often create such tensions that a community that has
constantly refused to------its injustices is forced to correct them: the injustices can no
longer be ——,
(A) acknowledge..ignored
(B) decrease..verified
(C) tolerate..accept
(D) edaddress..eliminated
(E) explain..discussed
2. Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austen's novels has oscillated between------and
condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly
than did most of her literary------.
(A) dismissal..admirers
(B) adoration..contemporaries
(C) disapproval..readers
(D) indifference..followers
(E) approbation..precursors
3. Then are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been-------to the
extent that they no longer —— ecologists.
(A) perfected..hinder
(B) exhausted..interest
(C) pro|onged..require
(D) prevented..challenge
(E) delayed..benefit
4. Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the National Institutes of Health, human
genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which------treatments are
unsatisfactory.
(A) similar (B) most (Q dangerous (D) uncommon (B) alternative
5. It was her view that the country's problems had been------by foreign technocrats, so
that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
(A) foreseen (B) attacked (Q ascertained (D) exacerbated (E) analyzed
6. Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible------: his comic strip about
Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftmanship and sequencing.
(A) sincerity (B) efficiency (Q virtuosity (D) rapidity (E) energy
7. The actual------of Wilson's position was always -— by his refusal to
compromise after having initially agreed to negotiate a settlement.
(A) outcome..foreshadowed
(B) logic..enhanced
(C) rigidity..betrayed
(D) uncertainty..alleviated
(E) cowardice..highlighted
Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is
followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best
expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8.SEDATIVE: DROWSINESS::
(A) epidemic: contagiousness
(B) vaccine: virus
(C) laxative: drug
(D) motor: car
(E) therapy: psychosis
9. LAWYER: COURTROOM::
(A) participant: team
(B) commuter : train
(C) gladiator: arena
(D) senator: caucus
(E) patient: ward
10. CURIOSITY: KNOW::
(A) temptation: conquer
(B) starvation: eat
(C) wanderlust: travel
(D) humor: laugh
(E) survival: live
11. FRUGAL: MISERLY::
(A) confident-: arrogant
(B) courageous: pugnacious
(C) famous: aggressive
(D) rash: foolhardy
(F) quiet: timid
12. ANTIDOTE: POISON ::
(A) cure: recovery
(B) narcotic: sleep
(C) stimulant: relapse
(D) tonic: lethargy
(E) resuscitation: breathing
13. STYGIAN: DARK::
(A) abysmal: low
(B) cogent: contentious
(C) fortuitous: accidental
(D) reckless: threatening
(E) cataclysmic: doomed
14. WORSHIP: SACRIFICE::
(A) generation : pyre
(B) burial: mortuary
(D) massacre: invasion
(E) prediction: augury
15. EVANESCENT: DISAPPEAR:
(A) transparent: penetrate
(B) onerous: struggle
(C) feckless: succeed
(D) illusory: exist
(E) pliant: yield
16. UPBRAID: REPROACH::
(A) dote: like
(B) lag: stray
(C) vex: please
(D) earn: desire
(E) recast: explain
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content.
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
It has been known for many decades that the appearance of sunspots is roughly
periodic, with an average cycle of eleven years. Moreover, the incidence of solar flares
and the flux of solar cosmic rays, ultraviolet radiation, and x-radiation all vary directly
with the sunspot cycle. But after more than a century of investigation, the relation of
these and other phenomena, known collectively as the solar-activity cycle, to terrestrial
weather and climate remains unclear. For example, the sunspot cycle and the allied
magnetic-polarity cycle have been linked to periodicities discerned in records of such
variables as rainfall, temperature, and winds. Invariably, however, the relation is weak,
and commonly of dubious statistical significance.
Effects of solar variability over longer terms have also been sought. The absence of
recorded sunspot activity in the notes kept by European observers in the late seventeenth
and early eighteenth centuries has led some scholars to postulate a brief cessation of
sunspot activity at that time (a period called the Maunder minimum). The Maunder
minimum has been linked to a span of Unusual cold in Europe extending from the
sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The reality of the Maunder minimum has yet
to be established, however, especially since the records that Chinese naked-eye observers
of solar activity made at that time appear to contradict it. Scientists have also sought
evidence of long-term solar periodicities by examining indirect climatological data, such
as fossil records of the thickness of ancient tree rings. These studies, however, failed to
link unequivocally terrestrial climate and the solar-activity cycle, or even to confirm the
cycle's past existence.
If consistent and reliable geological or archaeological evidence tracing the solaractivity
cycle in the distant past could be found, it might also resolve an important issue
in solar physics: how to model solar activity. Currently, there are two models of solar
activity. The first supposes that the Sun's internal motions (caused by rotation and
convection) interact with its large-scale magnetic field to produce a dynamo, a device in
which mechanical energy is converted into the energy of a magnetic field. In short, the
Sun's large-scale magnetic field is taken to be self-sustaining, so that the solar-activity
cycle it drives would be maintained with little overall chance for perhaps billions of
years. The alternative explanation supposes that the Sun's large-scale magnetic field is a
remnant of the field the Sun acquired when it, formed, and is not sustained against decay.
In this model, the solar mechanism dependent on the Sun's magnetic field runs down
more quickly. Thus, the characteristics of the solar-activity cycle could be expected to
change over a long period of time. Modern solar observations span too short a time to
reveal whether present cyclical solar activity is a long-lived feature of the Sun, or merely
a transient phenomenon.
17. The author focuses primarily on
(A) presenting two competing scientific theories concerning solar activity and
evaluating geological evidence often cited to support them
(B) giving a brief overview of some recent scientific developments in solar physics
and assessing their impact on future climatological research
(C) discussing the difficulties involved in linking terrestrial phenomena with solar
activity and indicating how resolving that issue could have an impact on our
understanding of solar physics
(D) pointing out the futility of a certain line of scientific inquiry into the terrestrial
effects of solar activity and recommending its abandonment in favor of purely
physics-oriented research
(E) outlining the specific reasons why a problem in solar physics has not yet been
solved and faulting the overly theoretical approach of modem physicists
18. Which of the following statements about the two models of solar activity, as they are
described in lines 37-55, is accurate?
(A) In both models cyclical solar activity is regarded as a long-lived feature of the
Sun, persisting with little change over billions of years.
(B) In both models the solar-activity cycle is hypothesized as being dependent on the
large-scale solar magnetic field.
(C) In one model the Sun's magnetic field is thought to play a role in causing solar
activity, whereas in the other model it is not.
(D) In one model solar activity is presumed to be unrelated to terrestrial phenomena,
whereas in the other model solar activity is thought to have observable effects on
the Earth.
(E) In one model cycles of solar activity with periodicities longer than a few decades
are considered to be impossible, whereas in the other model such cycles are
redirected.
19.According to the passage, late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Chinese
records are important for which of the following reasons?
(A) They suggest that the data on which the Maunder minimum was predicated were
incorrect.
(B) They suggest that the Maunder minimum cannot be related to climate.
(C) They suggest that the Maunder minimum might be valid only for Europe
(D) They establish the existence of a span of unusually cold weather worldwide ay
the time of the Maunder minimum.
(E) They establish that solar activity at the time of the Maunder minimum did not
significantly vary from its present) pattern.
20. The author implies which of the following about currently available geological and
archaeological evidence concerning the solar-activity cycle?
(A) It best supports the model of solar activity described in lines 37-45.
(B) It best supports the model of solar activity described in lines 45-52.
(C) It is insufficient to confirm either model of solar activity described in the third
paragraph.
(D) It contradicts both models of solar activity as they are presented in the third
paragraph.
(E) It disproves the theory that terrestrial weather and solar activity are linked in
some way.
21. It can be inferred from the passage that the argument in favor of the model described
m lines 37-45 would be strengthened if which of the following were found to be true?
(A) Episodes of intense volcanic eruptions in the distant past occurred in cycles
having very long periodicities.
(B) At the present time the global level of thunderstorm activity increases and
decreases in cycles with periodicities of approximately 11 years.
(C) In the distant past cyclical climatic changes had periodicities of longer than 200
years.
(D) In the last century the length of the sunspot cycle has been known to vary by as
much as 2 years from its average periodicity of 11 years.
(E) Hundreds of millions of years ago, solar activity cycles displayed the same
periodicities
22. It can be inferred from the passage. that Chinese observations of the Sun during the
late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
(A) are ambiguous because most sunspots cannot be seen with the naked eye
(B) probably were made under the same weather conditions as those made in Europe
(C) are more reliable than European observations made during this period
(D) record some sunspot activity during this period
(E) have been employed by scientists seeking to argue that a change in solar activity
occurred during this period
23. It can be inferred from the passage that studies attempting to use tree-ring thickness
to locate possible links between solar periodicity and terrestrial climate are based on
which of the following assumptions?
(A) The solar-activity cycle existed in its present form during the time period in
which the tree rings grew.
(B) The biological mechanisms causing tree growth are unaffected by short-term
weather patterns.
(C) Average tree-ring thickness varies from species to species.
(D) Tree-ring thicknesses reflect changes in terrestrial climate.
(E) Both terrestrial climate and the solar-activity cycle randomly affect tree-ring
thickness.
The common belief of some linguists that each language is a perfect vehicle for the
thoughts of the nation speaking it is in some ways, the exact counterpart of the conviction
of the Manchester school of economics that supply and demand will regulate everything
for the best. Just as economists were blind to the numerous cases in which the law of
supply and demand left actual wants unsatisfied, so also many linguists are deaf to those
instances in which the very nature of a language calls forth misunderstandings in
everyday conversation, and in which, consequently, a word has to be modified or defined
in order to present the idea intended by the speaker: "He took his stick—no, not John's,
but his own." No language is perfect, and if we admit this truth, we must also admit that it
is not unreasonable to investigate the relative merits of different languages or of different
details in languages.
24. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) analyze an interesting feature of the English language
(B) refute a belief held by some linguists
(C) show that economic theory is relevant to linguistic study
(D) illustrate the confusion that can result from the improper use of language
(E) suggest a way in which languages can be made more nearly perfect
25. The misunderstanding presented by the author in lines 13-14 is similar to which of the
following?
I. X uses the word "you" to refer to a group, but Y thinks that X is
referring to one person only.
II. X mistakenly uses the word "anomaly" to refer to a typical example,
but Y knows that "anomaly" means "exception."
III. X uses the word "bachelor" to mean "unmarried man," but Y
mistakenly thinks that bachelor means "unmarried woman."
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only
(E) II and III only
26. In presenting the argument, the author does all of ' the following EXCEPT
(A) give an example
(B) draw a conclusion
(C) make a generalization
(D) make a comparison
(E) present a paradox
27. Which of the following contributes to the misunderstanding described by the author
in lines 13-14?
(A) It is unclear whom the speaker of the sentence is addressing.
(B) It is unclear to whom the word "his" refers the first time it is used.
(C) It is unclear to whom the word "his" refers the second time it is used.
(D) The meaning of "took" is ambiguous.
(E) It is unclear to whom "He" refers.
Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters, followed by
five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the choices before deciding which one is best.
28. FALLACY:
(A) persona! Philosophy (B) imaginative idea (C) unconfirmed theory (D) tentative
opinion (E) valid argument
29. DIVULGE:
(A) keep secret (B) evaluate by oneself (C) refine (D) restore . (E) copy
30. BOYCOTT:
(A) extort (B) underwrite (C) underbid (D) stipulate (E) patronize
31. ADULTERATION:
(A) consternation (B) purification (C) normalization (D) approximation (E)
rejuvenation
32. DEPOSITION:
(A) process of congealing (B) process of distilling (C) process of eroding
(D) process of evolving (E) process of condensing
33. ENERVATE:
(A) recuperate (B) resurrect (C) renovate (D) gather (E) strengthen
34. LOQUACIOUS:
(A) tranquil (B) skeptical (C) morose (D)" taciturn (E) witty
35. REPINE:
(A) intensify (B) excuse (C) express joy (D) feel sure (E) rush forward
36. VENERATION:
(A) derision (B) blame (C) avoidance (D) ostracism (E) defiance
37. INVETERATE:
(A) casual (B) public (C) satisfactory (D) trustworthy (E) sophisticated
38. UNDERMINE:
(A) submerge (B) supersede (C) overhaul (D) undergird (E) intersperse
SECTION 3
Time—30 minutes
30 Questions
Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers.
Figures: Position of points, angles, regions, etc. can be assumed to be in the order
shown; and angle measures can be assumed to be positive.
Lines shown as straight can be assumed to be straight.
Figures can be assumed to lie in a plane unless otherwise indicated.
Figures that accompany questions are intended to provide information useful in
answering the questions. However, unless a note states that a figure is drawn to scale, you
should solve these problems NOT by estimating sizes by sight or by measurement, but by
using your knowledge of mathematics (sec Example 2 below).
Directions: Each of the Questions 1-15 consists of two quantities, one in Column A and
one in Column B. You are to compare the two quantities and choose
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Note: Since there are only four choices, NEVER MARK (E).
Common
Information: In a question, information concerning one or both of the quantities to be
compared is centered above the two columns. A symbol that appears in both columns
represents the same thing in Column A as it does in Column B.
Column A Column B Sample Answers
Example 1: 2 X 6 2 + 6
Examples 2-4 refer to ΔPQR.
Example 2:
(since equal measures cannot
be assumed, even though PN
and NQ appear equal)
Example 3: x y
(since N is between P and Q)
Example 4: w + z 180
(since PQ is a straight line)
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal; • ;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Column A Column B
1. 34 43
x = 2y + 3
y=-2
2. x -1
d = 5.03894 and d is the decimal expression for d rounded to the nearest thousandth.
3. The number of decimal 4
places where d and [d] differ
x + 2y > 8
4. 2x + 4y 20
Square MNPQ has area 36.
5. The perimeter of pentagon MNOPQ 30
p and q are different prime numbers, r is the least prime number greater than p, and s is,
the least prime number greater than q.
6. r – p s -q
|-3|+_m
7. m 3
n is an even integer and a multiple of 3.
8. The remainder when n 6
is divided by 12
Equilateral triangle PQR is formed by joining centers P, Q, and R of the circles.
Each pair of circles has exactly one point in common.
9.The perimeter of triangle PQR
The circumference of the circle with center Q
10. The volume of a cylindrical tank that has a radius of 2 meters and a height of 10
meters
The volume of a cylindrical tank that has a meter and a height of 20 meters.
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Column A Column B
ds # O
11.The time required to travel d miles at s miles per hour
The time required to travel d/2 miles at 2s
ΔRST is isosceles and ∟RST = 40.
12. The sum of the measures 120°
of the two angles of ΔRST that have equal measure
13. √x4+6X2+ 9 x2 + 3
0 is the center of the circle aud LAOC is a
right angle.
14. OD BD
Before Maria changed jobs, her salary was 24 percent more than Julio's salary. After
Maria changed jobs, her new salary was 24 percent less than her old salary.
15. Julio's salary Maria's new salary
Directions: Each of the Questions 16-30 has five answer choices. For each of these
questions, select the best of the answer choices given.
16. (19 - 18 - 17 - 16) - (20 - 19 - 18 - 17)=
(A) -36
(B) -6
(C) –4
(D) l
(E) 2
17. If 3x -2 = 7, then 4x =
(A) 3
(B) 5
(C) 20/3
(D) 9
(E) 12
18.Of the following, which is closest to 3√30?
(A) 6
(B) 5
(C) 4
(D) 3
(E) 2
19. The dots on the graph above indicate age and weight for a sample of 25 students.
What percent of these students are less than 19 years old and weigh more than 110
pounds?
(A) 36%
(B) 40%
(C) 44%
(D) 48%
(F) 52%
20. The greatest number of diagonals that can be drawn from one vertex of a regular 6-
sided polygon is
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
(E) 6
Questions 21-25 refer to the following graphs.
AVERAGE DAILY'CIRCULATION FOR NEWSPAPER*
TOTAL YEARLY ADVERTISING REVENUE FOR NEWSPAPER X
AVERAGE NUMPER OF PAGES PER NEWSPAPER FOR NEWSPAPER X
21. In how many of the years shown was the average number of pages per newspaper at
least twice as much as the average in 1940?
(A) Four
(B) Three
(C) Two
(D) One
(E) None
22. In 1950, it the printing cost per newspaper; was $0.05, what would have been the
total cost of printing the average daily circulation?
(A) $32,500
(B) $26,000
(C) $23,500
(D) $22,000
(E) $2,600
23. In 1980 the number of dollars of advertising revenue was how many times as great as
the average daily circulation?
(A) 500
(B) 200
(C) 100 ,
(D) 50
(E) 20
24. The percent decrease in average daily circulation from 1960 to 1970 was
approximately
(A) 10%
(B) 12%
(C) 20%
(D) 26%
(E) 32%
25. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the data?
I. The greatest increase in total vearly advertising revenue over any 10-year
period shown was $27 million.
II. In each of the 10-year period* shown in which yearly advertising revenue
decreased, average daily circulation also decreased.
III. From 1970 to 1980 the average number of pages per newspaper increased by
10.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II
(E) II and ill
26. If 0 < st < 1, then which of the following can be true?
(A) s < -1 and / > 0
(B) s < -1 and / < -1
(C) s > -1 and ».< -1
(D) s > 1 and / < -1
(E) s > 1 and / > 1 .
| | | |
W X Y Z
27. On segment WZ above, if WY = 21, XZ = 26, and YZ is twice WX, what is the value
of XY?
(A) 5
(B) 10
(C) 11
(D) 16
(E) It cannot be determined from the information given.
28. To reproduce an old photograph, a photographer charges x dollars to make a negative,
3x/5 dollars for each of the first 10 prints, and 4 dollars for each print in excess of 10
prints. If $45 is the total charge to make a negative and 20 prints from an old photograph,
what is the value of x?
(A) 3
(B) 3.5
(C) 4
(D) 4.5
(E) 5
29. Which of the following is equal to ¼ of 0.01 percent?
(A) 0.000025
(B) 0.00025
(C) 0.0025
(D) 0.025
(E) 0.25
30. In the figure above, each of the four squares has sides of length x. If Δ PQR is formed
by joining the centers of three of the squares, what is the perimeter of Δ PQR in terms of
x?
(A) 2x√2
(B) x√2 /2 +x
(C) 2x + √2
(D) x √2 +2
(E) 2x + x√2
SECTION 4
Time—30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, 'each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of
words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
1. The senator's reputation, though------by false allegations of misconduct, emerged from
the ordeal _____.
(A) shaken..unscathed
(B) destroyed..intact
(C) damaged..impaired
(D) impugned..unclear
(E) tarnished..sullied
2 This poetry is not------; it is more likely to appeal to an international audience than is
poetry with strictly regional themes.
(A) familiar (B) democratic (C) technical (D) complex (E) provincial
3. Experienced employers recognize that business students who can-------different
points- of view are ultimately more effective as managers than are the brilliant and
original students wtfo------dogmatically to their own formulations.
(A) discredit..revert (B) assimilate..adhere (Q impose..refer (D) disregard..incline (E)
advocate..relate
4. Poe's------reviews of contemporary fiction, which often find great merit in otherwise---
----literary gems, must make us respect his critical judgment in addition to his wellknown
literary talent.
(A) thorough..completed
(B) petulant..unpopular
(C) insightful..unappreciated
(D) enthusiastic..acclaimed
(E) harsh..undeserving
5. The significance of the Magna Carta lies not in its------provisions, but in its broader
impact: it made the king subject to the law.
(A) specific (B) revolutionary (C) implicit (D) controversial (E) finite
6. The theory of cosmic evolution states that the universe, having begun in a state of
simplicity and------, has------into great variety.
(A) equilibrium..modulated
(B) homogeneity..differentiated
(C) contrast..metamorphosed
(D) proportion..accelerated
(E) intelligibility..developed
7. Not wishing to appear-------, the junior member of the research group refrained from--
-----any criticism of the senior members' plan for dividing up responsibility for the entire
project.
(A) reluctant..evaluating
(B) inquisitive..offering
(C) presumptuous..venturing
(D) censorious..undercutting
(E) moralistic..observing
Direction: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is
followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best
expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8. FRAGILE: BREAK::
(A) invisible: see
(B) erratic: control
(C) flammable: burn
(D) noxious: escape
(E) industrial: manufacture
9. MUTTER: INDISTINCT::
(A) demand: obedient
(B) plead: obligatory
(C) flatter: commendab
(D) drone: monotonous
(E) confirm: proven
10. FAULTFINDER: CRITICIZE::
(A) luminary: recognize
(B) athlete: cheer
(C) arbitrator: mediate
(D) pharmacist: prescribe
(E) dawdler: toil
11. PEST: IRKSOME::
(A) satesclerk: courteous
(B) expert: proficient
(C) enigma: unexpected
(D) leader: nondescript
(E) accuser: indicted
12. PROLOGUE: NOVEL::
(A) preamble: statute
(B) sketch: drawing
(Q movement: symphony
(D) index: book
(E) blueprint: building
13. EXPAND-.VOLUME::
(A) ascend: flight
(B) proliferate: number
(C) bend: flexibility
(D) cool: temperature
(E) deflect: heading
14: CONTIGUOUS: ABUT::
(A) possible: occur
(B) simultaneous: coincide
(C) comprehensive: except
(D) synthetic: create
(E) constant: stabilize
15. SUITCASE: LUGGAGE::
(A) gift: package
(B) necklace: garment
(C) room: house
(D) hat: millinery
(E) faucet: sink
16. PROHIBITIVE: PURCHASE::
(A) preventive: heal
(B) laudatory: praise
(C) admonitory: fear
(D) peremptory: dispute
(E) imperative: comply
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content.
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect
on the lives of the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which
the machines have been introduced. For example, (!) it has been suggested that the
employment of women in industry took them out of the household, their traditional
sphere, and fundamentally altered their position in society. In the nineteenth century,
when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician, warned that by
doing so, women would give up their femininity. Friedrich Engels, however, predicted
that women would be liberated from the "social, legal, and economic subordination" of
the family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the
whole female sex ... into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social
desirability of mechanization's effects, but they agreed that it would transform women's
lives.
Historians, particularly those investigating the history of women, now seriously
question this assumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic
technological innovations as the spinning jenny, the sewing machine, the typewriter, and
the vacuum cleaner have not resulted in equally dramatic social changes in women's
economic position or in the prevailing evaluation of women's work. The employment of
young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolution was largely an extension
of an older pattern of employment of young, single women as domestics. It was not the
change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previously seen
as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the I880's
created a new class of "dead-end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work." The
increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth
century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure
time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high
marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers, previously, in
many cases, the only women employers would hire.
Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the
household to the office or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of
blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work
have changed little since before the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupations
by gender, lower pay for women as a group, jobs that require relatively low levels of skill
and offer women little opportunity for advancement ' all persist, while women's
household labor remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major
revision of the notion that technology is always inherently revolutionary in its effects on
society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of
women both in the labor market and in the home.
17. Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
.
(A) The effects of the mechanization of women's work have not borne out the frequently
held assumption that new technology is inherently revolutionary.
(B) Recent studies have shown that mechanization revolutionizes a society's traditional
values and the customary roles of its members.
(C) Mechanization has caused the nature of women's work to change since the Industrial
Revolution.
(D) The mechanization of work creates whole new classes of jobs that did not previously
exist.
(E) The mechanization of women's work, white extremely revolutionary in its effects, has
not, on the whole, had the deleterious effects that 'some critics had feared.
18. The author mentions all of the following inventions as examples of dramatic
technological innovations EXCEPT the
(A) sewing machine (B) vacuum cleaner (C) typewriter' (D) telephone . (E) spinning
jenny
19. It can be inferred from the passage that, before the Industrial Revolution, the
majority of women's work was done in which of the following settings?
(A) Textile mills (B) Private households (Q Offices (D) Factories (E) Small shops
20. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would consider which of the
following to be an indication of a fundamental alteration in the conditions of women's
work?
(A) Statistics showing that the majority of women now occupy white-collar positions
(B) Interviews with married men indicating that they are now doing some household
tasks.
(C) Surveys of the labor market documenting the recent creation of a new class of jobs in
electronics in which women workers outnumber men four to one
(D) Census results showing that working women's wages and salaries are, on the
average, as high as those of working men.
(E) Enrollment figures from universities demonstrating that increasing numbers of young
women are choosing to continue their education beyond the undergraduate level
21. The passage states that, before the twentieth century, which of the following was true
of many employers?
(A) They did not employ women in factories.
(B) They tended to employ single rather than married women.
(C) They employed women in only those jobs that were related to women's traditional
household work.
(D) They resisted technological innovations that would radically change women's roles
in the family.
(E) They hired women only when qualified men were not available to fill the open
positions.
22. It can be inferred from the passage that the author most probably believes which of
the following to be true concerning those historians who study the history of women?
(A) Their work provides insights important to those examining social phenomena
affecting the lives of both sexes.
(B) Their work can only be used cautiously by scholars in other disciplines.
(C) Because they concentrate only on the role of women in the workplace, they
draw more reliable conclusions than do other historians.
(D) While highly interesting, their work has not had an impact on most historians
current assumptions concerning the revolutionary ' effect of technology in the
workplace.
(E) They oppose the further mechanization of work, which, according to their
findings, tends to perpetuate existing inequalities in society.
23. Which of the following best describes the function of the concluding sentence of the
passage?
(A) It sums up the general points concerning the mechanization of work made in the
passage as a whole.
(B) It draws a conclusion concerning the effects of the mechanization of work which
goes beyond the evidence presented in the passage as a whole.
(C) It restates the point concerning technology made in the sentence immediately
preceding it.
(D) It qualifies the author's agreement with scholars who argue for a major revision
in the assessment of the impact of mechanization on society.
(E) It suggests a compromise between two seemingly contradictory views
concerning the effects of mechanization on society.
(This passage is excerpted from an article that was published in 1982.)
Warm-blooded animals have elaborate physiological controls to maintain constant
body temperature (in humans, 37" C). Why then during sickness should temperature rise,
apparently increasing stress on the infected organism? It has long been known that the
level of serum iron in animals falls during infection. Garibaldi first suggested a
relationship between fever and iron. He found that microbial synthesis of siderophores---
substances that bind iron—in bacteria of the genus Salmonella declined at environmental
temperatures above 37° C and stopped at 40.3° C. Thus, fever would make it more
difficult for an infecting bacterium to acquire iron and thus to multiply. Cold-blooded
animals were used to test this hypothesis because their body temperature can be
controlled in the laboratory. Kluger reported that of iguanas infected with the potentially
lethal bacterium A. hydrophilia, more survived at temperatures of 42° C than at 37° C,
even though healthy animals prefer the lower temperature. When animals at 42° C were
injected with an iron solution, however, mortality rates increased significantly. Research
to determine whether similar phenomena occur in warm-blooded animals is sorely
needed.
24. The passage is primarily concerned with attempts to determine
(A) the role of siderophores in the synthesis of serum iron
(B) new treatments for infections that are caused by A. hydrophilia
(C) the function of fever in warm-blooded animals
(D) the mechanisms that ensure constant body temperature
(E) iron utilization in cold-blooded animals
25. According to the passage, Garibaldi determined which of the following?
(A) That serum iron is produced through microbial synthesis
(B) That microbial synthesis of siderophores in warm-blooded animals is more efficient
at higher temperatures
(C) That only iron bound to other substances can be used by bacteria
(D) That there is a relationship between the synthesis of siderophores in bacteria of the
genus Salmonella and environmental temperature
(E) That bacteria of the genus Salmonella require iron as a nutrient
26. Which of the following can be inferred about warm-blooded animals solely on the
basis of information in the passage?
(A) The body temperatures of warm-blooded animals cannot be easily controlled in the
laboratory.
(B) Warm-blooded animals require more iron in periods of stress than they do at other
times.
(C) Warm-blooded animals are more comfortable at an environmental temperature of
37° C than they are at a temperature of 42° C.
(D) In warm-blooded animals, bacteria are responsible for the production of
siderophores, which, in turn, make iron available to the animal.
(E) In warm-blooded animals, infections that lead to fever are usually traceable to
bacteria.
27. If it were to be determined that "similar phenomena occur in warm-blooded
animals" (lines 22-23), which of the following, assuming each is possible, is likely to be
the most effective treatment for warm-blooded animals with bacterial infections?
(A) Administering a medication that lowers the animals' body temperature
(B) Injecting the animals with an iron solution
(C) Administering a medication that makes serum iron unavailable to bacteria
(D) Providing the animals with reduced-iron diets
(E) Keeping the animals in an environment with temperatures higher than 37°C
Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters, followed by
five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the choices before deciding which one is best.
28. PERTAIN: (A) be apathetic (B) be illegitimate (C) be irrevocable (D) be
incongruous
(E) be irrelevant
29. FREQUENCY: (A) unity (B) rarity (C) gradualness (D) persistency
(E) moderation
30. AMALGAMATE: (A) study (B) circulate (Q reduce (D) endure (E) separate
31. ARRHYTHMIC: (A) timely (B) subordinate (C) terminal (D) lacking precision
(E) exhibiting regularity
32. BLITHE: (A) conceited (B) dim (C) sturdy (D) laconic (E) grave
33. POLEMICAL: (A) imitative (B) lavish
(C) conciliatory (D)-attractive (E) modest ,
34. PRECIPITATE: (A) deliberate (B) determined (C) dissident (D) desperate (E)
divided
35. DEFERENCE: (A) aversion (B) resignation (C) suspicion (D) inattention (E)
contempt
36. UNTOWARD: (A) direct (B) decisive
(C) necessary (D) favorable and anticipated (E) confident and prepared
37. OPPROBRIOUS: (A) meretricious
(B) innocuous (C) invulnerable (D) irreproachable (E) ambitious
38. VERITABLE: (A) impetuous (B) pernicious
(C) inefficacious (D) disastrous (E) specious
FOR GENERAL TEST 2 ONLY
Answer key and Percentage of Examinees Answering Each Question Correctly
VERBEL ABILITY
Section 1 Section 4
Number Answer P + Number Answer P +
1 A 90 1 A 84
2 B 82 2 E 86
3 B 81 3 B 87
4 E 77 4 C 80
5 D 70 5 A 74
6 C 62 8 B 71
7 C 28 7 C 68
8 D 96 8 C 98
9 C 85 9 D 76
10 C 46 10 C 70
11 A 46 11 B 63
12 D 46 12 A 60
13 A 39 13 B 48
14 E 36 14 B 48
I5 E 35 15 D 26
16 A 26 16 D 35
17 C 63 17 A 56
18 B 63 18 D 97
19 A 64 19 B 89
20 C 75 20 D 51
21 E 64 21 B 66
22 D 46 22 A 33
23 D 51 23 B 48
24 B 62 24 C 74
25 A 59 25 D 70
26 E 52 26 A 51
27 B 66 27 C 48
28 E 89 28 E 89
29 A 86 29 B 87
30 E 76 30 E 69
31 B 78 31 E 58
32 C 41 32 E 30
33 E 37 33 C 44
34 D 36 34 A 25
35 C 25 35 E 31
36 A 29 36 D 36
37 A 18 37 D 25
38 D 21 38 E 19
QUANTITY ABILITY
Section 3 Section 7
Number Answer P+ Number Answer P+
1 A 85 1 C 94
2 C 84 2 A 80
3 B 79 3 C 65
4 D 76 4 B 76
5 C 57 5 A 64
6 D 70 6 B 67
7 B 69 7 B 72
8 D 52 8 D 69
9 B 52 9 A 34
10 A 50 10 C 38
11 A 42 11 D 19
12 D 26 12 D 59
13 C 57 13 C 42
14 B 52 14 D 26
15 A 35 15 B 40
16 E 75 16 B 88
17 E 86 17 E 80
18 D 81 18 B 77
19 A 83 19 A 74
20 B 63 20 C 71
21 B 92 21 B 84
22 C 90 22 D 58
23 B 71 23 D 54
24 E 58 24 E 63
25 D 71 25 A 34
26 C 47 26 D 51
27 D 32 27 C 52
28 E 44 28 B 32
29 A 19 29 E 49
30 E 47 30 D 57
TEST 2
SECTION 1
Time—30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, blank indicating that something
has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of words. Choose
the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a
whole.
1. In the British theater young people under thirty-five have not had much------getting
recognition onstage, but offstage—in the ranks of playwrights, directors, designers,
administrators—they have mostly been relegated to relative obscurity.
(A) trouble (B) satisfaction (C) curiosity about (D) success at (E) fear of
2. An institution concerned about its reputation is at the mercy of the actions of its
members, because the misdeeds of individuals are often used to------the institutions of
which they are a part.
(A) reform (B) coerce (C) honor (D) discredit (E) intimidate
3. Since many casual smokers develop lung cancer and many-------smokers do not,
scientists believe that individuals differ in their--------the cancer-causing agents known to
be present in cigarette smoke.
(A) heavy..susceptibility to
(B) chronic..concern about
(C) habitual..proximity to
(D) devoted..reliance upon
(E) regular..exposure to
4. We accepted the theory that as people become more independent of one another, they
begin to feel so isolated and lonely that freedom becomes------ condition that most will
seek to------.
(A) a permanent..postpone
(B) a common..enter
(C) a negative..escape
(D) a political..impose
(E) an irreparable..avoid
5. If animal parents were judged by human standards, the cuckoo would be one of
nature's more------- creatures, blithely laying its eggs in the nests of other birds, and
leaving the incubating &id nurturing to them.
(A) mettlesome (B) industrious (C) domestic (D) lackluster (E) feckless
6. The current penchant for------a product by dent-grating a rival, named in the
advertisement by brand name, seems somewhat------: suppose the consumer remembers
only the rival's name?
(A) criticizing..inefficient
(B) touting..foolhardy
(C) enhancing..insipid
(D) evaluating..cumbersome
(E) flaunting..gullible
7. His imperturbability in the face of evidence indicating his deliberate fraud failed to
reassure supporters of his essential------; instead, it suggested a talent for-------that they
had never suspected.
(A) culpability.. intrigue (B) wisdom..reproof (C) remorse..loquacity (D) probity..
guile (E) combativeness. . compromise
Directions. In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is
followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases select the lettered pair that best
expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8. JUDGE: GAVEL::
(A) detective : uniform
(B) doctor : stethoscope
(C) referee : whistle
(D) soldier: insignia
(E) lecturer: podium
9. ORGAN: KIDNEY::
(A) skeleton: kneecap
(B) bone: rib
(C) neuron: synapse
(D) abdomen: stomach
(E) blood: aorta
10. SOOT: COMBUSTION::
(A) lint: brushing
(B) gravel: crushing
(C) gristle: tenderizing
(D) rubbish: housecleaning
(E) sawdust: woodcutting
11.PURIFY : IMPERFECTION::
(A) Align : adjustment
(B) Weary: Boredom
(C) Disagree : controversy
(D) Verify : doubtfulness
(E) Hone : sharpness
12. CENTRIFUGE: SEPARATE::
(A) thermometer: calibrate
(B) statue: chisel
(C) floodgate: overflow
(D) colander: drain
(E) television: transmit
13. MOCK: IMITATE
(A) satirize: charm
(B) condense: summarize
(C) placate: assuage
(D) adapt: duplicate
(E) taunt: challenge
14. MALADROIT: SKILL::
(A) intemperate r anger
(B) unreasonable: intuition
(C) sluggish: fatigue
(D) glib: profundity
(E) morose: depression
15. EQUIVOCATION: AMBIGUOUS
(A) mitigation: severe
(B) contradiction: peremptory
(C) platitude: banal
(D) precept; obedient
(E) explanation: unintelligible
16. VOLATILE:TEMPER::
(A) prominent: notoriety,
(B) ready: wit
(C) catastrophic: disaster .(D) gentle: heart
(E) expressive: song
Direction: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After
reading a passage, choose: best answer to each question. Answer all questions following
a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
(This passage is from an article published in 1973)
The recent change to all-volunteer armed forces in the united States will
eventually produce a gradual increase in the proportion of women in the armed forces
variety of women's assignments, but probably dramatic gains for women that might have
been expected. This is so even though the armed forces operate in an ethos of institutional
change oriented award occupational equality and under the federal sanction of equal pay
for equal work. The difficulty; is that women are unlikely to be trained for any direct
combat operations. A significant portion of the larger society remains uncomfortable as
yet with extending equality in this direction. Therefore, for women in the military, the
search for equality will still be based on functional equivalence, not identity or even
similarity of task. Opportunities seem certain to arise. The growing emphasis on
deterrence is bound to offer increasing scope for Women, to become involved in novel
types of noncombat military assignments.
17. The primary purpose 01 the passage is to
(A) present an overview of the different types of assignments available to women in
the new United States all-volunteer armed forces
(B) present a reasoned prognosis of the status of women in the new United States allvolunteer
armed forces
(C) present the new United States all-volunteer armed forces as a model case of
equal employment policies in action
(D) analyze reforms in the new United States all volunteer armed forces necessitated
by the increasing number of women in the military
(E) analyze the use of functional equivalence as a substitute for occupational
equality in the new' United States all-volunteer armed forces
18. According to the passage, despite the United States armed forces' commitment to
occupational equality for women in the military, certain other factors preclude women's
(A) receiving equal pay for equal work
(B) having access to position of responsibility at most levels
(C) drawing assignments from a wider range of assignments than before
(D) benefiting from opportunities arising from new noncombat functions assigned to men
(E) being assigned all of the military tasks that are assigned to men
19. The passage implies that which of the following is a factor conducive to a more
equitable representation of women in the United States armed forces than has existed in
the past?
(A) The all-volunteer character of the present armed forces
(B) The past service records of women who had assignments functionally equivalent to
men's assignments
(C) The level of awareness on the part of the larger society of military issues
(D) A decline in the proportion-of deterrence oriented noncombat assignments
(E) Restrictive past policies governing the military assignments open to women
20. The "dramatic gains for women" (line 5) and the attitude, as described in lines 11-12,
of a "significant portion of the larger society" are logically related to each other inasmuch
as the author puts forward the latter as
(A) a public response to achievement of the former
(B) the major reason for absence of the former
(C) a precondition for any prospect of achieving the former
(D) a catalyst for a further extension of the former
(E) a reason for some of the former being lost again
Of the thousands of specimens of meteorites found on Earth and known to
science, only about 100 are igneous; that is, they have undergone melting by volcanic
action at some time since the planets were first formed. These igneous meteorites §re
known as achondrites because they lack chondrules— small stony spherules found in the
thousands of meteorites (called "chondrules") composed primarily of unaltered minerals
that condensed from dust and gas at the origin of the solar system. Achondrites are the
only known samples of volcanic rocks originating outside the Earth-Moon system. Most
are thought to have been dislodged by interbody impact from asteroids, with diameters of
from 10 to 500 kilometers, in solar orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
Shergottites, the name given to three anomalous achondrites so far discovered on
Earth, present scientists with a genuine enigma. Shergottites crystallized from molten
rock less than 1.1 billion years ago (some 3.5 billion years later than typical achondrites)
and were presumably ejected into space when an object impacted on a body similar in
chemical composition to Earth.
While most meteorites appear to derive from comparatively small bodies,
Shergottites exhibit properties that indicate that their source was a large planet,
conceivably Mars. In order to account for such an unlikely source, some unusual factor
must be invoked, because the impact needed to accelerate a fragment of rock to escape
the gravitational field of a body even as small as the Moon is so great that no meteorites
of lunar origin have been discovered.
While some scientists speculate that Shergottites derive from lo (a volcanically
active moon of Jupiter), recent measurements suggest that since lo's surface is rich in
sulfur and sodium, the chemical composition of its volcanic products would probably be
unlike that of the Shergottites. Moreover, any fragments dislodged > from lo by interbody
impact would be unlikely to escape the gravitational pull of Jupiter.
The only other logical source of Shergottites is Mars. Space-probe photographs
indicate the existence of giant volcanoes on the Martian surface. From the small number
of impact craters that appear on Martian lava flows, one can estimate that the planet was
volcanically active as recently as a half-billion years ago—and may be active today. The
great objection to the Martian origin of Shergottites is the absence of lunar meteorites on
Earth. An impact capable of ejecting a fragment of the Martian surface into an Earthintersecting
orbit is even less probable than such an event on the Moon, in view of the
Moon's smaller size and closer proximity to Earth. A recent study suggests, however, that
permafrost ices below the surface of Mars may have altered the effects of impact on it. If
the ices had been rapidly vaporized by. an impacting object, the expanding gases might
have helped the ejected fragments reach escape velocity. Finally, analyses performed by
space probes show a remarkable chemical similarity between Martian soil and the
Shergottites.
21. The passage implies which of the following about Shergottites?
I. They are products of volcanic activity.
II. They derive from a planet larger than Earth.
III. They come from a planetary body with a chemical composition similar to that of
lo.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(Q I and II only
(D) II and HI only
(E) I, II, and HI
22. According to the passage, a meteorite discovered on Earth is unlikely to have come
from a large planet for which of the following reasons?
(A) There arc fewer large planets in the solar system than there are asteroids.
(B) Most large planets have been volcanically inactive for more than a billion yean
(C) The gravitational pull of a large planet would probably prohibit fragments from
escaping its orbit.
(D) There are no achondrites occurring naturally on Earth and probably none on
other large planets.
(E) Interbody impact is much rarer on large than on small planet* because of toe
density of the atmosphere on large planets.
23. The passage suggests that the age of Shergottites is probably
(A) still entirely undetermined
(B) less than that of most other achondrites
(C) about 3.5 billion yean
(D) the same a* that of typical achondrites
(E) greater than that of the Earth
24. According to the passage, the presence of chondrules in a meteorite indicates that the
meteorite
(A) has probably come from Mars
(B) is older than the solar system itself
(C) has not been melted since the solar system formed
(D) is certainly less than 4 billion years old
(E) is a small fragment of an asteroid
25. The passage provides information to answer which of the following questions?
(A) What is the precise age of the solar system?
(B) How did shergottites get their name?
(C) What are the chemical properties shared by Shergottites and Martian soils?
(D) How volcanically active is the planet Jupiter?
(E) What is a major feature of the Martian surface?
26. It can be inferred from the passage that each of the following is a consideration in
determining whether a particular planet is a possible source of shergottites that have been
discovered on Earth EXCEPT the
(A) planet's size
(B) planet's distance from Earth ,
(C) strength of the planet's field of gravity
(D) proximity of the planet to its moons
(E) chemical composition of the planet's surface
27. It can be inferred from the passage that most meteorites found on Earth contain
which of the following?
(A) Crystals (B) Chondrules (C) Metals (D) Sodium (E) Sulfur
Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters, followed
by five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the choices before deciding which one is best.
28. LIMP: (A) true (B) firm • (C) clear (D) stark (E) endless
29. GLOBAL: (A) local (B) unusual (C) unpredictable (D) hot-headed
(E) single-minded
30. STABILITY: (A) disparity (B) inconstancy (C) opposition (D) carelessness (E)
weariness
31. DILATE: (A) narrow (B) strengthen (C) bend (D) push (E) soften
32. CONSOLE: (A) pretend sympathy (B) reveal suffering (Q aggravate grief (D)
betray (E) vilify
33. EXCULPATE: (A) attribute guilt ' (B) avojd responsibility (Q establish facts (D)
control hostilities (E) show anxiety
34. ACCRETION:
(A) ingestion of a nutrient
(B) loss of the security on a loan
(C) discernment of subtle differences
(D) reduction in substance caused by erosion
(E) sudden repulsion from an entity
35. CADGE: (A) conceal (B) influence (C) reserve (D) earn (E) fevor
36. ABJURE: (A) commingle (B) arbitrate * (Q espouse (D) appease (E) pardon
37. SPECIOUS: (A) unfeigned (B) significant (Q valid (D) agreeable (E) restricted
38. QUOTIDIAN: (A) extraordinary. (B) certain (Q wishful (D) secret (E)
premature
SECTION 3
Time—30 minutes
25 Questions
Directions: Each question or group of questions is based on a passage or set of
conditions. In answering some of the questions, it may be useful to draw a rough
diagram. For each question, select the best answer choice given.
Questions 1-6
A circus manager must divide eight circus acts—F, L, M, O, R, T, X, and Z—into two
groups of four acts each, one group scheduled to perform; one act at a time, in ring 1 and
the other group scheduled to perform, also one act at a time, in ring 2. All acts take
equally long to perform, and every act that takes place in one of the rings must be
scheduled for exactly the same time slot as an act that takes place in the other ring. The
schedule must also conform to the following conditions:
Act F must take place in one of the rings at the same time that act M takes place
in the other ring.
Act L must take place in one of the rings at the same time that act O takes place in
the other ring.
Act R must take place in the same ring as act F.
Act T must take place in the same ring as act O.
Act X must be the second act that takes place in ring 2.
1. Which of the following, without regard to the order in which they will be performed,
could be the group of acts to be scheduled for performance in ring 1? .
(A) F, L, M, and T
(B) F, L, O, and R '
(C) L, M, O, and T
(D) M, O, T, and Z
(E) O, R, T, and Z
2. If act T performs in ring 1, which of the following acts must perform in ring 2?
(A) F
(B) L
(B) M
(D) R
(E) Z
3. If act R must perform in one of the rings at the same time that act T performs in the
other ring, which of the following must be the second act in ring 1 ?
(A) F
(B) L
(C) M
(D) 0
(E) Z
4. If the order, from first to last, of circus acts in ring 2 is O, X, T, M, which of the
following is an acceptable order of acts in ring 1, also from first to last?
(A) F, R, L, Z
(B) L, Z, F, R
(C) L, Z, R, F
(D) Z, L, F, R
(E) Z, R, L, F
5. If act F must perform between act X and act R in ring 2, which of the following must
be the first act in ring 1?
(A) L
(B) M
(C) O
(D) T
(E) Z
6. If act T must take place in ring 1 immediately after act F and immediately before act
R, which act must be the third act in ring 2?
(A) L
(B) M
(C) O
(D) T
(E) Z
7. The federal government expects hospitals to perform 10,000 organ transplants next
year. But it is doubtful' that this many donor organs will be available, since the number of
fatalities resulting from car and moto4 cycle accidents has been dropping steadily over
the past decade.
The argument above makes which of the following assumptions?
(A) A significant number of the organs used in transplants come from people who die in
car and motorcycle accidents.
(B) The number of car and motorcycle accidents will increase significantly during the
next year.
(C) No more than 10,000 people will be in need of-organ transplants during the next
year.
(D) In the past the federal government's estimates of the number of organ transplants
needed during a given year have been very unreliable.
(E) For any given fatality resulting from a car or motorcycle accident, there is a hospital
in the vicinity in need of an organ for a transplant.
8. Verbal patterns in four works known to be written by a certain author were compared
to those in a work of uncertain authorship sometimes attributed to that author. Many
patterns were studied, including frequency of specific words and recurrence of certain
phrases. The questioned work displayed verbal patterns very similar to those in the other
four works, establishing that the same author wrote all five.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens, the conclusion above?
(A) No two writers are likely to display similar verbal patterns in their works.
(B) Writers from different historical periods sometimes use«the same words and
phrases, but the meanings of such words and phrases change over time
(C) Many writers consciously attempt to experiment with innovative verbal patterns
in each new work.
(D) A relatively small number of words in any language occur with great frequency,
and those words make up the largest portion of all discourse.
(E) Word choice is generally considered an insignificant component of an author's
style.
9. Because incumbent members of Congress are given a great deal of attention by the
news media and because they enjoy such perquisites as free mail privileges and generous
travel allowances, incumbents enjoy an overwhelming advantage over their challengers
in elections for the United States Congress.
Which of the following, if true, best supports the claim above?
(A) In the last congressional elections, incumbents met with a larger number of
lobbyists than did challengers.
(B) In the last congressional elections, 98 percent of the incumbents in the house of
Representatives who were seeking reelection won.
(C) Incumbent members .of Congress are frequently critical of the amount of
attention given to them by the news media.
(D) The support that political action committees provide to challengers for
congressional seats often compensates for the perquisites enjoyed by incumbent
members of Congress.
(E) Of all incumbent senators surveyed before the last congressional elections, 78
percent said that their challengers did not pose a serious threat to their chances
for reelection.
Ouestions 10-14
In a display of products available from a paper manufacturer, exactly eight folders are to
be displayed on eight stands t\at are lined up in a straight line and numbered
consecutively 1 through 8 from left to right. There are three gray folders, two purple
folders, two yellow folders, and one orange folder. The folders must be displayed
according to the following conditions:
At least one of the purple folders must be next to a yellow folder.
The orange folder cannot be next to a yellow folder
The three gray folders cannot be placed on three consecutive stands.
Stand 5 must hold a gray folder.
Either stand 1 or stand 8 or both must hold a yellow folder
10 Which of the following is an acceptable ordering of colors of folders from left to
right?
Stand 1 Stand 2 Stand 3 Stand 4 Stand 5 Stand 6 Stand 7 Stand 8
(A) Gray Gray Yellow Orange Gray Purple Purple Yellow
(B) Orange Gray Yellow- Gray Purple Purple Gray Yellow
(C) Purple Yellow Gray Gray Gray Orange Purple Yellow
(D) Yellow Gray Purple, Yellow Gray Orange Purple Gray
(E) Bellow Gray Yellow Gray Gray Purple Orange Purple
11. If a gray folder is placed on stand 4, another gray folder could be placed on any of the
following stands EXCEPT.
(A) 1
(B) 3
(C) 5
(D) 7
(E) 8
12. If purple folders are on stands 1 and 2, which of the following must be true?
(A) A gray folder is on stand 3.
(B) The orange folder is on stand 4.
(C) A gray folder is on stand 4
(D) A yellow folder is on stand 6
(E) The orange folder is on stand 8.
13. If stand 2 holds an orange folder, which of the following must be true?
(A) Stand 1 holds a gray folder.
(B) Stand 3 holds a purple folder
(C) Stand 6 holds a purple folder.
(D) Stand 7 holds a yellow folder.
(E) Stand 8 holds a yellow folder.
14. If stands 1 and 3 hold gray folders, any (ff the following could be true EXCEPT:
(A) Stand 2 holds a yellow folder.
(B) Stand 4 holds an orange folder.
(C) Stand 6 holds a purple folder.
(D) Stand 7 holds a yellow folder.
(E) Stand 7 holds an orange folder.
Questions 15-18
Five persons—J, K, L, M, and O—have gathered to play a game called "forest and trees."
Four players play in each round, with one person sitting out. Rounds are played by two
competing teams of two persons each. The players have agreed on the following rules of
participation:
No two players can play as a team in two consecutive rounds of the game.
After a round is concluded, one person from the losing team in that round must sit
out the next round of the game.
After a round is concluded, the person who has sat out that round and a person
from the winning team in that round join to form the team that is known as "the forest"
for the next round.
After a round is concluded, one person from the losing team in that round and one
person from the winning team in that round join to form the team that is known as "the
trees" for the next round.
No round of the game can end in a tie.
Because L and O are perceived as having the greatest individual strengths as
players, L and O can never play on the same team.
I5. If, in the first round of a game, J and O are the winning team and L sits out, which of
the following must be a team in the second round of that game?
(A) J and L
(B) K and L
(C) K. and M
(D) L and M
(E) M and O
16 If, in the first round of a game K. and L are the winning team and J sits out, which
of the winning could be a team in the second round of the game?
(A) J and M
(B) J and O
(C) K and L
(D) K and O
(E) M and O
17. If J and M are the winning team in the first round each of the following could be a
member of “the forest” during the second round EXCEPT
(A) J
(B) K
(C) L
(D) M
(E) O
18. If M sits out the first round, each of the following could be a team in the first round
EXCEPT
(A) J and, K
(B) J and L
(C) J and O
(D) K and L
(E) K and O
Questions 19-22
Seven persons—N, Q', R, S, T, U, and W—arc all the persons present at a party. All of
the join distinct conversational groups that form during the party and that consist of two,
three, or four persons at a time. At any time during the party, each of the persons present
is considered to be a member of exactly one of the conversational groups during the party
the following conditions are satisfied:
N can never be in the same conversational group as S
T must be in a. conversational group that includes cither S or W, but T cannot be in a
conversational group with both S and W
W must be in a conversational group that consists of exactly three persons.
19 Which of the following lists three conversational groups that tan exist at the same time
during the party?
(A) N and S
(B) N and T
(C) N and U
(D) N and W
(E) N, U, and W
Q, T, and W
R and S
R and S
S and U
S and O
R and U
Q, U, and W
Q, T, and W
Q, R, and T
R and T
20. If, at a certain point during the party, R, T, and W are members of three distinct
conversational groups, S must at that point be in a conversational group that includes
(A) Q
(B) R
(C) T
(D) U
(E) W
21. If, at a certain point daring the party, a group of three persons and a group of four
persons have formed and W is in the same conversational group as U, which of the
following must at that point be in the group with W and U?
(A) N
(B) Q
(C) R
(D) S
(E) T
22. If, at a certain point during the party, one of the conversational groups consists only
of Q, R, and W, at that point N must be part of a group of exactly
(A) two persons, whose other member is T
(B) two persons, whose other member is U
(C) for persons, whose other members include S
(D) four persons, whose other members include T
(E) four persons, whose other members include U
23. Instead of relying on general tax revenue, as it now does, the government should rely
more heavily on passenger fares to finance public bus and train service. In order for
public transportation to lie maintained without cutting service, users should pay all the
operating costs even if these costs should increase. Such charges would be fair since only
users benefit from public transportation.
Which of the following is a principle on which the position above could be based?
(A) The number of users of a public service should determine the amount of
governmental financial support for the service.
(B) The amount of public transportation provided should be dependent on the
operating cost of each transportation service.
(C) If necessary, general taxes should be raised, to ensure that public transportation
services are provided.
(D) The government should provide support from general tax revenue to any
transportation industry that has passenger service available to the public.
(E) General tax revenues should not be used to finance public services that benefit
a limited, number of people.
24. When the manufacturer of Voltage, a major soft drink, changed its secret formula last
year, the export earnings of an island in the Indian Ocean began to fall. This island's only
export comprises more than half of the world's supply of vanilla . Analysts concluded that
the original formula of Voltage contained vanilla from beans, but the. new formula did
not.
Which of the following, if true, would most the conclusion drawn by the analysts?
(A) The vanilla-bean plantings of a nearby island were beginning to produce crops.
(B) A new process for synthesizing vanilla was under development in a laboratory in
the United States.
(C) The eland's trade agreement, under which the vanilla beans were exported to the
country that manufactures Voltage, had lapsed.
(D) Imports of vanilla beans dropped in countries Voltage is made.
(E) There were decreases in sales of several widely sold products that were known to
contain.
25. Carol is shorter than Juan, but the is taller than Ed. Sandra is shorter than Juan, and
she is shorter than Ed. Wallie is taller than Sandra, but shorter than Juan.
If the statements above are true, one can validly conclude that Bill is shorter than Carol if
it is true that
(A) Carol is equal in height to Wallie
(B) Wallie is equal in height to Bi8
(C) Bill is taller than Sandra, but shorter than Wallie
(D) Bill is shorter than Juan, but taller than Ed
(E) Wallie is taller than Bill, but shorter than Ed
SECTION 4
Time—30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of
words. Choose the word or set of words for each) blank that best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
2.There is something ------- about the way the building of monasteries proliferated in 18th
century Babaria, While in the rest of the western world religious ardor was ----- and
church building was consequently declining
(A) enigmatic: coalescing
(B) Destructive: changing
(C) Immutable: dissipating
(D) Incongruous: Diminishing
(E) Momentous: Diversifying
3. Because they had various meanings in 19th century biological thought, “mechanism “
and “vitalism” ought not to be considered ---- terms; Thus, find the recent insistence that
the terms had single definitions entirely-------
(A) Umvocal: Erroneous
(B) Problematic : anachronistice
(C) Intractable: ob
(D) Congruent: suspect
(E) Multifaceted: vapid
(4) Many Americans believe that individual initiative optimized 1890 ‘s and see the
entrepreneur as the ----- of that age
(A) Caricature
(B) Salvation
(C) Throw back
(D) aberration
(E) personification
5. Neither the ideas of philosophers nor the practices of ordinary people can, by
themselves,------reality; what in fact changes reality, and kindles revolution is the------of
the two.
(A) constitute.. divergence
(B) affect..aim
(C) transform..interplay
(D) preserve..conjunction
(E) alter..intervention
6. There has been a tendency among art historians not so much to revise as to eliminate
the concept of the Renaissance—to------not only its uniqueness, but its very existence.
(A) explain (B) extol (C) transmute (D) regret (E) contest
7. Employees had become so inured to the caprices of top management's personnel
policies that they greeted the announcement of a company-wide dress code with------.
(A) astonishment (B) impassivity (C) resentment (D) apprehension (E) confusion
Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is
followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best
expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8. SURGEON: DEXTERITY::
(A) engineer: clarity
(B) sailor: navigation
(C) magistrate: precedent
(D) industrialist: capital
(E) acrobat: agility
9. PRUNE: HEDGE::
(A) shuck: corn
(B) trim: hair
(C) cut: bouquet
(D) reap: crop
(E) shave: mustache
10. PHOTOGRAPH: LIGHT::
(A) script: scene
(B) film: negative
(C) recording: sound
(D) rehearsal: practice
(E) concert: song
11. ANTIBIOTIC: INFECTION::
(A) hormone: modification
(B) enzyme: digestion
(C) narcotic: dependency
(D) coagulant: bleeding
(E) stimulant: relaxation"
12. EULOGY: PRAISE::
(A) comedy: laughter
(B) epic: contempt
(C) tirade: awe
(D) elegy: lament
(E) parody: respect
13. DAMP: VIBRATION::
(A) drench: moisture
(B) concentrate: extraction
(C) boil: liquid »
(D) seal: perforation
(E) stanch: flow
14. ABRADED: FRICTION::
(A) refined: distillate
(B) anodized: metal
(C) diluted: gas
(D) strengthened: pressure
(E) vaporized: heat
15. QUARRY: STONE::
(A) fell: timber
(B) dredge: canal
(C) assay: gold
(D) bale: hay
(E) mold: clay
16. CREDULOUS: DUPE::
(A) wealthy: monarch
(B) insensitive: boor
(C) argumentative: lawyer
(D) spontaneous: extrovert
(E) extravagant: miser
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content.
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
The transplantation 01 organs from one individual to another normally involves
two major problems:(1) organ rejection is likely unless the transplantation antigens of
both individuals are nearly identical, and (2) the introduction of any unmatched
transplantation antigens induces the development by the recipient of donor-specific
lymphocytes that will produce violent rejection of further transplantations from that
donor. However, we have found that among many strains of rats these "normal" rules of
transplantation are not obeyed by liver transplants. Not only are liver transplants never
rejected, but they even induce a state of donor-specific unresponsiveness in which
subsequent transplants of other organs, such as skin, from that donor are accepted
permanently. Our hypothesis is that (1) many strains of rats simply cannot mount a
sufficiently vigorous destructive immune-response (using lymphocytes) to outstrip the
liver's relatively great capacity to protect itself from immune-response damage and that
(2) the systemic unresponsiveness observed is due to concentration of the recipient's
donor-specific lymphocytes at the site of the liver transplant.
17. The primary purpose of the passage is to treat the accepted generalizations about
organ transplantation in which of the following ways?
(A) Explicate their main features
(B) Suggest an alternative to them
(C) Examine their virtues and limitations
(D) Criticize the major evidence used to support' them /
(E) Present findings that qualify them
18. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that an important
difference among strains of rats is the
(A) size of their livers
(B) constitution of their skin
(C) strength of their immune-response reactions
(D) sensitivity of their antigens
(E) adaptability of their lymphocytes
19. According to the hypothesis of the author, after* successful liver transplant, the
reason that rats do not reject further transplants of other organs from the same donor is
that the
(A) transplantation antigens of the donor and the recipient become matched
(B) lymphocytes of the recipient are weakened by the activity of the transplanted liver
(C) subsequently transplanted organ is able to repair the damage caused by the
recipient's immune-response reaction
(D) transplanted liver continues to be the primary locus for the recipient's immuneresponse
reaction
(E) recipient is unable to manufacture the lymphocytes necessary for the immuneresponse
reaction
20. Which of the following new findings about strains of rats that do not normally reject
liver transplants, if true, would support the authors' hypothesis?
I. Stomach transplants are accepted by the recipients in all cases.
II. Increasing the strength of the recipient's immune-response reaction can induce livertransplant
rejection.
III. Organs from any other donor can be transplanted without rejection after liver
transplantation.
IV. Preventing lymphocytes from being concentrated at the liver transplant produces
acceptance of skin transplants.
(A) II only
(B) I and III only
(C) II and IV only
(D) I,II, and III only
(E) I, III, and IV only
Practically speaking, the artistic maturing of the cinema was the single-handed
achievement of David W. Griffith (1875-1948). Before Griffith, photography in dramatic
films consisted of little more than placing the actors before a stationary camera and
showing them in full length, as they would have appeared on stage. From the beginning
of his career as a director, however, Griffith, because of his love of Victorian painting,
employed composition. He conceived of the camera image as having a foreground and a
rear ground, as well as the middle distance preferred by most directors. By 1910 he was
using close-ups to reveal significant details of the scene or of the acting and extreme long
Shots to achieve a sense of spectacle and distance. His appreciation of the camera’s
possibilities produced novel dramatic effects. By splitting an event into fragments and
recording each from the most suitable camera position, he could significantly vary the
emphasis from camera shot to camera shot.
Griffith also achieved dramatic effects by means of creative editing. By
juxtaposing images and varying the speed and rhythm of their presentation, he could
control the dramatic intensity of the events as the story progressed. Despite the reluctance
of his producers, who feared that the public would-not be able to follow a plot that was
made up of such juxtaposed images, Griffith persisted, and experimented as well with
other elements of cinematic syntax that have become standard ever since. These included
the flashback, permitting broad psychological and emotional exploration as well as
narrative that was not chronological, and the crosscut between two parallel actions to
heighten suspense and excitement. In thus exploiting fully the possibilities of editing,
Griffith transposed devices of the Victorian novel to film and gave film mastery of time
as well as space.
Besides developing the cinema's language, Griffith immensely broadened its
range and treatment of subjects. His early output was remarkably eclectic: it included the
standard comedies, melodramas, westerns, and thrillers, but also such novelties as adaptations
from Browning and Tennyson, and treatments of, social issues. As his successes
mounted, his ambitions grew, and with them the whole of American cinema. When he
remade Enoch Arden in 1911, he insisted that a subject of such importance could not be
treated in the then conventional length of one reel. Griffith's introduction of the
American-made multireel picture began an immense revolution. Two years later, Judith
of Bethulia, an elaborate historicophilosophical spectacle, reached the unprecedented
length of four reels, or one hour's running time. From our contemporary viewpoint, the
pretensions of this film may seem a trifle ludicrous, but at the time it provoked endless
debate and discussion and gave a new intellectual respectability to the cinema.
21. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) discuss the importance of Griffith to the development of the cinema
(B) describe the impact on cinema of the flashback and other editing innovations.
(C) deplore the state of American cinema before the advent of Griffith
(D) analyze the changes in the cinema wrought by the introduction of the multireel
film.
(E) document Griffith's impact on the choice of subject matter in American films.
22. The author suggests that Griffith's film innovations had a direct effect on all of the
following EXCEPT
(A) film editing (B) camera work (C) scene composing (D) sound editing (E)
directing
23. It can be inferred from the passage that before 1910 the normal running time of a
film was
(A) 15 minutes or less
(B) between 15 and 30 minutes
(C) between 30 and 45 minutes
(D) between 45 minutes' and 1 hour
(E) 1 hour or more
24. The author asserts that Griffith introduced all of the following into American cinema
EXCEPT
(A) consideration of social issues
(B) adaptations from Tennyson
(C) the flashback and other editing techniques
(D) photographic approaches inspired by Victorian painting
(E) dramatic plots suggested by Victorian theater
25. The author suggests that Griffith's contributions to the cinema had which of the
following results?
I. Literary works, especially Victorian novels, became popular sources for film subjects.
II Audience appreciation of other film directors' experimentations with cinematic syntax
was increased.
III. Many of the artistic limitations thought to " be inherent in filmmaking were shown
to be -really nonexistent.
(A) II only
(B) III only
(Q I and II only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II, and III
26. It can be inferred from the passage that Griffith would be most likely to agree with
which of the following statements?
(A) The good director will attempt to explore new ideas as quickly as possible.
(B) The most important element contributing to a film's success is the ability of the
actors.
(C) The camera must be considered an integral and active element, in the creation of a
film.
(D) The cinema should emphasize serious and sober examinations of fundamental
human problems.
(E). The proper composition of scenes in a film is more important than the details of their
editing.
27. The author's attitude toward photography in the cinema before Griffith can best be
described as
(A) sympathetic (B) nostalgic (C) amused (D) condescending (E) hostile
Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters, followed
by five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital
Letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the choices before deciding which o.ne is best.
28. ADHERE: (A) detach (B) cleanse (C) engulf (D) indie (E) contain
29. UNCONVENTlONALITY: (A) perceptibility (B) inscrutability- (C)
imperturbability (D) fidelity to custom (E) formality of discourse
30 PINCH: (A) important accomplishment (B) apt translation (C) abundant amount (D)
opportune acquisition '(E) unfamiliar period
31. OUTSET: (A) regression (B) series (C) exit (D) interruption (E) termination
32. RAREFY:
(A) make less humid
(B) make less opaque
(C) make more voluminous
(D) make more dense
(E) make more oily
33. EFFRONTERY: (A) charity (B) deference (C) simplicity (D) deceitfulness (E)
stupidity
34. SCURVY: (A) completely centered
(B) above reproach (C) imaginative
(D) valiant (E) carefree .
35. OBDURATE: (A) complaisant (B> similar
(C) commensurate (D) uncommunicative
(E) transitory
36. AVER:
(A) resign indignantly (B) condemn unjustly
(C) refuse (D) deny (E) resent
37. PITH: (A) untimely action
(B) insufficient attention (Q routine treatment
(D) rigid formulation (E) superficial element
38. SUPINE: (A) vigilant (B) flustered
(C) distorted (D) brittle (E) awkward
SECTION 5
Time-30 minutes
30 Questions
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information
Column A. Column B
1. 4/5 4/7 4/7-2/5
2. The average (arithmetic The average (arithmetic
mean) of 87, 95, and 1 30 mean) of 88, 95, and 2
29
Column A Column B
N/x=428 and n/y = 107.
n>0
7. x y
8. s 60
6 is x percent of 24.
Y is 25 percent of 96.
9. x y
3. The time that it takes The time that it takes
Jim to drive 300 miles Lila to drive 240 miles
speed of 52 miles at a speed of 40 miles per hour
per hour
4. (-5f (~6)5--
Ms. Rogers bought an electric range on the installment
plan. The cash price of the range was $400. The
amount she paid was SI 20 down and 12 monthly
payments of S28 each.
5 The amount she paid for S56 the electric
range in excess of the cash price
/
6. The length of The length of
chord PQ chord XY
2x + y <3
x>2
10. y 0
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater,
C if the two quantities are equal;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given
Column A Column B
x
x
The perimeter of square S is equal to the perimeter of
the rectangle above
11. The length of a x + 3
Side of 5
0 < a < b < c
12 b/a c/b
Column Column B
rt > 0
14 3/r + 4/t 3t + 4r/r + t
15. z - x y
C is a circle with radius 3.
13. The ratio of the circumference of C to the diameter of C
Directions: Each of the Questions 16-30 has five answer choices For each of these
questions, select the best of the answer choices given
16. 92 – 62 /3 =
(A) 1
(B). 15/9
(C) 5
(D) 8
(E) 15
17 What is 0 423658 rounded to the nearest thousandth?
(A) 042
(B) 0,423
(C) 0.424
(D) 0.4236
(E). 0 4237
18 If 3(x + 2) = x - 4, then x =
(A) -5
(B) -3
(C) 1
(D) 3
(E) 5
19. If x2 + 2xy + y2 = 9 then (x + y) 4 =
(A) 3
(B) 18
(C) 27
(D) 36
(E) 81
20 In the rectangular coordinate system above, if x =48, then > =
(A) 3.0
(B) 3.2
(C) 34
(D) 3.6
(E) 3.8
Questions 21-25 refer to the following graphs.
NATIONAL HEALTH EXPENDITURES FOR COUNTRY X, 1975-1986 (1 billion =1,000,000,000)
21. For how many of the years shown was the amount of private health expenditures at
least double the amount of public health expenditures?
(A) None I
(B) One
(C) Two
(D) Three
(E) Four
22 In which of the years from 1975 through 1986 was the national health expenditure
per capita most nearly equal to half the per capita expenditure for 1984?
(A) 1975
(B) 1977
(C) 1979
(D) 1980
(E) 1982
23. Of the following, which is the best approximation of the percent increase in the
national health expenditure per capita from 1981 to 1982?
(A) 35%
(B) 30%
(C) 20%
(D) 10%
(E) 5%
24. Of the following, which is closest to the amount of public national health
expenditures, in billions of dollars, in 1980? /
(A) 25
(B) 30
(C) 35
(D) 45
(E) 70
25. It can be inferred from the graphs that in 1977 the population of Country X, in
millions, was closest to which of the following?
(A) 120
(B) 150
(C) 190
(D) 240
(E) 250
26. If x is the number on the number line between 5 and 15 that is twice as far from 5 as
from 15, then x is
(A) 5 2/3
(B) 10
(C) 11 2/3
(D) 12 ½
(E) 13 1/3
27. Jane has exactly 3 times as many Canadian Is non-Canadian stamps in her collection.
Which of the following CANNOT be the number of stamps in Jane's collection?
(A) 96
(B) 80 \
(C) 72
(D) 68
(E) 54
28. In the figure above, if the area of the smaller square region is ½ the area of the larger
square region, then the diagonal of the larger square is how many inches longer than the
diagonal of the smaller square?
(A) √2 –1
(B) ½
(C) √2/2
(D) √2+1/2
(E) √2
29. A distillate flows into an empty 64-gallon drum at spout A and out of the drum at
spout B. If the rate of flow through A is 2 gallons per hour, how many gallons per hour
must flow out at spout B so that the drum is full in exactly 96 hours?
(A) 3/8
(B) 1/2
(C) 2/3
(D) 4/3
(E) 8/3
30. A farmer has two rectangular fields. The larger field has twice the length and 4 times
the width of the smaller field. If the smaller field has area K, then the area of the larger
field is greater than the area of the smaller field by what amount?
(A) 2K
(B) 6K
(C) 7K
(D) 8K
(E) 12K
FOR GENERAL TEST 2 ONLY
Answer Key and Percentages of Examinees Answering Each Question Correctly
VERBAL ABILITY
Section 1 Section 4
Number Answer P+ Number Answer P+
1 A 79 1 C 76
2 D 95 2 D 70
3 A 88 3 A 57
4 C 75 4 E 72
5 E 56 5 C 63
6 B 57 6 E 55
7 D 42 7 B 52
8 C 82 8 E 69
9 B 87 9 B 83
10 E 86 10 C 85
11 D 83 11 D 76
12 D 66 12 D 52
13 E 38 13 E 51
14 D 35 14 E 38
15 C 27 15 A 26
16 B 20 16 B 25
17 B 72 17 E 34
18 E 76 18 C 77
19 A 52 19 D 45
20 B 48 20 A 36
21 D 46 21 A 92
22 C 79 22 D 83
23 B 73 23 A 79
24 C 47 24 E 59
25 E 32 25 B 40
26 D 47 26 C 75
27 B 59 27 D 55
28 B 94 28 A 96
29 A 88 29 D 82
30 B 80 30 C 92
31 A 82 31 E 63
32 C 76 32 D 34
33 A 42 33 B 37
34 D 36 34 B 38
35 D 23 35 A 37
36 C 26 36 D 31
37 C 27 37 E 27
38 A 20 38 A 26
QUANTITATIVE ABILITY
Section 2 Section 5
Number Answer P + Number Answer P +
1 B 80 1 A 82
2 D 82 2 C 89
3 A 78 3 B 77
4 D 80 4 A 86
5 B 81 5 C 79
6 A 76 6 B 70
7 B 72 7 8 66
8 A 62 8 D 72
9 D 59 9 A 65
10 A 56 10 B 77
11 C 36 11 C 61
12 B 38 12 D 47
13 D 34 13 A 61
14 B 27 14 D 39
15 C 22 15 C 30
16 D 94 16 E 92
17 D 79 17 C 88
18 C 78 18 A 80
19 B 74 19 E 71
20 D 72 20 B 53
21 A 82 21 C 78
22 D 75 22 B 81
23 B 69 23 D 62
24 E 52 24 A 21
25 B 40 25 C 42
26 C 61 26 C 52
27 A 52 27 E 52
28 C 48 28 A 27
29 E 40 29 D 35
30 E 39 30 C 20
ANALYTICAL ABILITY
Section 3 Section 6
Number Answer P + Number Answer P +
1 D 73 1 B 90
2 B 65 2 D 79
3 E 52 3 E 36
4 C 82 4 E 58
5 C 42 5 D 79
6 E 50 6 C 75
7 A 92 7 C 66
8 A 78 8 D 77
9 8 68 9 E 71
10 D 81 10 B 50
11 B 77 11 E 61
12 C 62 12 E 52
13 E 61 13 B 76
14 E 48 14 A 35
15 A 53 15 A 51
16 D 48 16 A 58
17 B 40 17 C 43
18 A 34 18 B 38
19 C 62 19 E 61
20 C 46 20 C 45
21 A 27 21 C 58
22 8 46 22 B 60
23 E 58 23 C 68
24 D 46 24 E 44
25 E 28 25 B 45
TEST 3
SECTION 1
Time— 30 minutes
21 Questions
Directions: Each question or group of questions is based on passage or set of
conditions. In answering some of the questions, it may he useful to draw a rough
diagram. For each question, select the best answer choice given.
Questions 1-6
A personnel officer is scheduling a single, interview with each of seven individuals
Fay, Gary, Julio Mary, Nicholas, Pilar, and Teresa Each interview is to be 30 minutes in
length, and the interviews are to be scheduled back-to-back, starting at 9 a.m., according
to the following conditions:
Gary's interview must be scheduled to begin at either 9am or 10 30 a.m.
Pilar's interview must be scheduled either as the next interview after Gary's
interview or as the next interview after Nicholas' interview.
Nicholas' interview must be scheduled to occur sometime after Mary's interview and
sometime before Fay's interview.
Julio's interview must be scheduled to begin exactly one hour after Teresa's interview is
scheduled to begin.
1. Which of the following is an acceptable schedule for the seven people?
9 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 12 noon
(A) Gary
(B) Gary
(C) Mary
(D) Mary
(E) Teresa
Nicholas
Pilar
Gary
Teresa
Pilar
Pilar
Teresa
Pilar
Julio
Julio
Mary
Mary
Teresa
Gary
Gary
Teresa
Julio
Nicholas
Nicholas
Mary
Fay
Nicholas
Julio
Pilar
Nicholas
Julio
Fay
Fay
Fay
Fay
2. Which of the following people can be scheduled for the interview that begins at 9
a.m.?
(A) Fay
(B) Julio
(C) Marc
(D) Nicholas
(E) War
3 The earliest time that Julio's interview can be scheduled to begin is
(A) 9:30 a.m.
(B) 10 a.m.
(C) 10:30 a.m.
(D) 11 a.m.
(E) 11:30 a.m.
4 If Nicholas' interview is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., who must be scheduled for
the interview that begins at 11 a.m.?
(A) Fay
(B) Julio
(C) Mary
(D) Pilar
(E) Teresa
5 If the interview schedule shows Teresa's-interview as the next after Pilar's and Pilar's
interview as the next after Nicholas', how long after Gary's interview is scheduled lo
begin must Julio's interview be scheduled to begin?
(A) 10 minutes
(B) 1 hour
(C) 90 minutes
(D) 2 hours
(E) 3 hours
6 If Teresa is scheduled for the interview that begins at 9am, Fay's interview must be
scheduled to begin at
(A) 9:30 a.m.
(B) 10:30 a.m.
(C) 11 a.m.
(D) 11:30 a.m.
(E) 12 noon
7 Wearing either a lap seat belt or a shoulder-and-lap seat belt protects, passengers from
the major types of injuries incurred in head-on automobile collisions In such collisions,
however, passengers, wearing lap seat belts alone frequently suffer internal injuries
caused by the seat belt itself Such injuries do not occur when shoulder-and-lap seat belts
are worn
Which of the-following conclusions about passengers involved in head-on automobile
collisions is best supported by the statements above?
(A) No type of seat belt provides passengers with adequate protection from injury
(B) The injuries that passengers most frequently incur are internal injuries
(C) Head-on automobile collisions cause more injuries to passengers than any other kind
of automobile accident does
(D) It is safer for passengers to wear a shoulder and-lap seat belt than to wear a lap seat
belt t alone
(E) It is safer for passengers to wear no seat belt than to wear a lap seat belt alone
8 Nonprescription sunglasses shield the wearer s eyes from damaging ultraviolet
sunlight Squinting, however, provides protection from ultraviolet rays that is at least as
good as the protection from nonprescription sunglasses There is, therefore, no health
advantage to be gained by wearing nonprescription sunglasses rather than squinting
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens support for the conclusion
above?
(A) Many opticians offer prescription sunglasses that not only screen out ultraviolet
sunlight but also provide corrective vision
(B) Some nonprescription sunglasses provide less protection from ultraviolet sunlight
than does squinting
(C) Squinting strains facial muscles and causes headaches and fatigue
(D) Many people buy sunglasses because they feel that sunglasses are fashionable
(E) Some people squint even when they are wearing sunglasses
Studies of workplace safety in construction and manufacturing firms have found that the
rate of injuries tends to rise when the firms' work loads increase Since inexperienced
workers are often hired by these firm1; when work loads increase, the higher rate of
injuries is undoubtedly due to a higher accident rate for inexperienced workers.
Which of the following statements, if true, would most weaken the conclusion drawn
above?
(A) Many of the inexperienced workers hired when the firms' work loads increase are
hired only for temporary positions
(B) The studies of workplace safety were focused only on injuries that resulted in lost
workdays
(C) There is a much higher rate of injury in construction firms than in manufacturing
firms
(D) The accident rate for experienced workers tends to increase whenever the firms'
work loads increase
(E) Firms that hire inexperienced workers for potentially dangerous jobs are required to
provide them with training
Questions 10-14
A researcher is experimenting with varying arrangements of exactly six units that are
electrical conductors—G, J, K, M, P, and S—in a loop containing eight positions, each
capable of containing one conductor. In each arrangement, each conductor is at one of the
eight positions and two positions are empty. In devising arrangements, the researcher
must obey the following restrictions:
G must be directly adjacent to J.
P .must be directly adjacent to S.
M must be directly adjacent to S on one side and to an empty position .on the other.
A signal can be transferred from one conductor directly to another when the two
conductors at directly adjacent to each other, and only then. A signal can be transferred
either way around the loop, from one conductor to another, until it reaches an empty
position. A signal cannot be transferred across an empty position.
10. If a signal can be transferred, either directly or indirectly, from J to K, it must be true
that a signal can be transferred, either directly or indirectly, from
(A) G to K
(B) G to M
(C) J to M
(D) J to P
(E) J to S
12. If P is directly adjacent to an empty position, which of the following is the greatest
number of conductors, including starting and ending conductors, that can be used in the
transfer of a single signal?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
(E) Six
13. If there is one conductor that is directly adjacent to both of the empty positions, that
conductor must be
(A) J
(B) K
(C) M
(D) P
(E) S
14. If a signal can be transferred from G to S, any of the following conductors could be
directly adjacent to an empty position EXCEPT
(A) G
(B) J
(C) K
(D) M
(E) P
11. If K is directly adjacent to P, any of the following could be true EXCEPT:
(A) G is directly adjacent to K.
(B) J is directly adjacent to K.
(C) J is directly adjacent to P.
(D) G is directly adjacent to an empty position.
(E) J is directly adjacent to an empty position.
Questions 15-18
Researcher know that exactly six prehistoric iron-working sites—Q, R, S, T,'V, and X—
existed in the Windham area Recently, the researchers have discovered three objects—1,
2, and 3—that they know must have been made by ironworkers in the Windham area The
researchers would like now to determine the specific site at which -each object was made
The objects are different enough in composition and style to leave no doubt that each was
made at a different site In addition, the researchers have established the following.
If any of the objects was made at Q, none of them was made at T.
If any of the objects was made at R, none of them was made at S.
One of the objects was made at V
Object 2 was not made at X
Object 3 was made neither at S nor at X.
15 If Object 1 was made at T, Object 3 could have been made at which of the following?
(A) Q
(B) R
(C) S
(D) T
(E) X
16. Object 1, Object 2, and Object 3, respectively, could nave been made at
(A) Q, S, and X
(B) R, X, and V
(C) T, V, and S
(D) V, Q, and T
(E) V, S, and Q
17 If neither Q nor T was a site at which any of the objects was made, which of the
following must be true?
(A) Object 1 was made at X
(B) Object 2 was made at S
(C) Object 2 was made at V
(D) Object 3 was made at R
(E) Object 3 was made at V
18 The researchers could determine exactly which object was made at which site if they
knew that the only three sites at which objects were made were.
(A) Q, R, and V
(B) Q, V, and X
(C) R, T, and .V
(D) S, T, and V
(E) S, V, and X
Questions 19-22.
Seven children—Frank, Joan, Kate, Manuel, Rose, Sam and Theresa—are eligible to
enter a spelling contest. From these seven, two teams must be formed, a red team and a
green team, each team consisting of exactly three of the children. No child can be
selected for more than one team. Team selection is subject to the following restrictions:
If Manuel is on the red team, Kate must be selected for the green team.
If Frank is on the red team,- Rose, if selected, must be on the green team.
Rose cannot be on the same team as Sam.
Joan cannot be on the same team as Kate.
19. Which of the following can be the three members of the red team?
(A) Frank, Joan, and Kate
(B) Frank, Rose, and Theresa
(C) Joan, Kate, and Theresa
(D) Kate, Manuel, and Rose
(E) Manuel, Rose, and Theresa
20. If Manuel and Frank are both on the red team, the green team can consist of which of
the following?
(A) Joan, Kate, and Rose
(B) Joan, Sam, and Theresa
(C) Kate, Rose, and Sam
(D) Kate, Rose, and Theresa
(E) Rose, Sam, and Theresa
21. If Manuel is on the red team, which of the following, if selected, must also be on the
red team?
(A) Frank
(B) Joan
(C) Rose
(D) Sam
(E) Theresa
22. If Frank is selected for the red team and Theresa is not selected for either team, then
which of the following CANNOT be a member of the green team?
(A) Joan
(B) Kate
(C) Manuel
(D) Rose
(E) Sam
Questions 23-24
The facts show that the fear of flying in airplanes is not rational. In 1986 alone, there
were 46,000 fatalities in highway accidents, but from 1980 to the present an average of
only 77 per year in accidents on major domestic airlines. The rate for regional airlines
was only slightly higher.
23. If the evidence cited above is accurate, which of the following would be most
important to know in order to evaluate the force of that evidence?
(A) Whether repeated airplane travel allays fear of flying in airplanes
(B) Whether regional and domestic airlines spend the same average amount of time per
aircraft on maintenance
(C) How many people reported a fear of flying in airplanes that was strong enough to
prevent them from traveling by air
(D) How many people per year have traveled by highway and how many by air since
1980
E) How much higher the accident rate has been for regional airlines than for major
domestic airlines since 1980
24. Which of the following, if true, would argue most strongly against the conclusion
above?
(A) Since the inventory of spare parts kept at each airport if smaller than in earlier years,
planes are often delayed at an airport while parts are flown in from another airport, and
then repairs are carefully made and checked.
(B) Air fatalities from 1980 to the present have been concentrated in the last two years,
with the rate rising sharply.
(C) The number of reports of near collisions in midair in 1986 was less than half those in
a typical year of the 1960's, even with double the traffic of the 1960's.
(D) Many reported near collisions in midair are t Closer than regulations allow but are
nevertheless without actual danger.
(E) Between 1980 and 1986, safety improvements in the design of automobiles steadily
improved their crashworthiness.
25. In 1985 a consumer agency concluded that Xylo brand bicycles are safer to ride than
are Zenon brand bicycles. The Agency based the conclusion on the ratio of the number of
rider injuries to the number of riding hours for each brand of bicycle from 1981 through,
1984. Yet for identically designed bicycles manufactured since 1985, the number of rider
injuries has been twice as great among riders of Xylos as among riders of Zenons.
Therefore, the agency's conclusion would have been different for the period since 1985.
Which of the following is an assumption that, if true, supports the claim that the agency's
conclusion would have been different for the period since 1985?
(A) For the period since 1985, the number of riding hours for Zenons totaled at least half
the number of riding hours for Xylos.
(B) Of all the bicycles ridden in the period since 198S, the percentage of Xylos ridden
was twice the percentage of Zenons ridden.
(C) Prior to 19.85, Zenon owners were more likely than Xylo owners to report the
injuries they sustained while riding their bicycles.
(D) In 1985 the agency had miscalculated the ratio for Xylos, for Zenons, or for both.
(E) Soon after the agency had issued its report, consumer demand for Xylos increased
more rapidly than did consumer demand for Zenons.
SECTIONS 3
Time—30 minutes
37 Questions
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of
words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
1. Although the feeding activities of whales and walruses give the seafloor of the Bering
Shelf a devastated appearance, these activities seem to be actually------to the area,------its
productivity.
(A) destructive.. counterbalancing
(B) rehabilitative! .diminishing
(C) beneficial.. enhancing
(D) detrimental.. redirecting
(E) superfluous.. encumbering
2. In an age without radio or recordings, an age------by print, fiction gained its greatest
ascendancy.
(A) decimated'
(B) denigrated
(C) dominated
(D) emphasized
(E) resurrected
3. Scientists' pristine reputation as devotees of the disinterested pursuit of truth has been-
-----by recent evidence that some scientists have deliberately ------experimental results to
further their own careers.
(A) reinforced.. published
(B) validated.. suppressed
(C) exterminated.. replicated
(D) compromised. .fabricated
(E) resuscitated.. challenged
.4. Although Johnson's and Smith's initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying
for power in the law firm-------after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention to
determine who their lunch partners should be.
(A) revived
(B) emerged
(C) intensified
(D) Hagged
(E) persisted
5. A war, even if fought for individual liberty and democratic rights, usually requires that
these principles be------, for they are------the regimentation and discipline necessary for
military efficiency.
(A) espoused.. contrary to
(B) suppressed.. fulfilled through
(C) suspended.. incompatible with
(D) followed. disruptive of
(E) rejected. Inherentin
6. To test the------of borrowing from one field of study to enrich another, simply
investigate the extent to which terms from .the one may, without forcing, be------the
other.
(A) risk..confused with
(B) universality.. applied to
(C) decorum.. illuminated by
(D) rate...superseded by
(E) efficacy ..utilized by
7. The English, novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so
dangerous that he criticized Dickens' Oliver Twist for making the characters in the
thieves' kitchen so-------.
(A) threatening
(B) riveting
(C) conniving
(D) fearsome
(E) irritating
Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is
followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best
expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8. ANIMAL: CAT::
(A) apple: pear
(B) club: player
(C) furniture: chair
(D) landscape: tree
(E) body: toe
9. CURTAIN: STAGED
(A) footlight: orchestra
(B) lid: jar
(C) upholstery: sofa
(D) veil: face
(E) screen: film
10. INSOMNIA: SLEEP::
(A) dyslexia: read
(B) hemophilia: bleed
(C) hyperactivity: move
(D) paranoia: hallucinate
(E) malnutrition; eat
11. JEER: DERISION::
(A) fidget: restraint
(B) cower: menace
(C) slouch: vigilance
(D) reprimand: censure
(E) frown: adversity
12. HUMILITY: SUPPLICANT
(A) espionage: felon
(B) dilettantism: connoisseur
(C) dogmatism: scholar
(D) gregariousness: teammate
(E) resistance: adversary
13. INTEREST: INVEIGLE
(A) evaluate: suggest
(B) foresee: predict
(C) plan: scheme
(D) interpret: examine
(E) neglect: persecute
14. BARTER: COMMODITIES
(A) arbitrate: disputes
(B) invade: boundaries
(C) debate: issues
(D) correspond: letters
(E) promote: ranks
15. PARRY: QUESTION::
(A) return: affection
(B) shirk: duty
(C) confront: dread
(D) hurl.: insult
(E) surrender: temptation
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content.
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
(This passage is excerpted from an article that was published in 1981.)
The deep sea typically has a sparse fauna dominated by tiny worms and
crustaceans, with an even sparser distribution of larger animals. However, near
hydrothermal vents, areas of the ocean where warm water emerges from subterranean
sources, live remarkable densities of huge clams, blind crabs, and fish.
Most deep-sea faunas rely for food on particulate matter, ultimately derived from
photosynthesis, falling from above. The food supplies necessary to sustain the large vent
communities, however, must be many times the ordinary fallout. The first reports
describing vent faunas proposed two possible sources of nutrition: bacterial
chemosynthesis, production of food by bacteria using energy derived from chemical
changes, and advection., the drifting of food materials from surrounding regions. Later,
evidence in support of the idea of intense local chemosynthesis was accumulated'
hydrogen sulfide was found in vent water; many vent-site bacteria were found to be
capable of chemosynthesis, and extremely large concentrations of bacteria were found in
samples of vent water thought to be pure. This final observation seemed decisive. If such
astonishing concentrations of bacteria were typical of vent outflow, then food within the
vent would dwarf any contribution from advection. Hence, the widely quoted conclusion
was reached that bacterial chemosynthesis provides the foundation for hydrothermal-vent
food chains—an exciting prospect because no other communities on Earth are
independent of photosynthesis
There are, however, certain difficulties with this interpretation. For example,
some of the large sedentary organisms associated with vents are also found at ordinary
deep-sea temperatures many meters from the nearest hydrothermal sources. This suggests
that bacterial chemosynthesis is not a sufficient source of nutrition for these creatures.
Another difficulty is that similarly dense populations of large deep-sea animals have been
found in the proximity of "smokers"—vents where water emerges at temperatures up to
350° C. No bacteria can survive such heat, and no bacteria were found there.
Unless smokers are consistently located near more- hospitable warm-water vents,
chemosynthesis, can account for only a fraction of the vent faunas it is conceivable,
however, that these large, sedentary organisms do in fact feed on bacteria that grow in
warm-water vents, rise in the vent water, and then ram in peripheral areas to nourish
animals living some distance from the warm-water vents.
Nonetheless, advection is a more likely alternative food source. Research has
demonstrated that advective flow, which originates near the surface of the ocean where
suspended particulate matter accumulates, transports some of that matter and water to the
vents. Estimates suggest that for every cubic meter, of vent discharge, 350 milligrams of
particulate organic material would be advected into the vent area. Thus, for an averagesized
vent, advection could provide more than 30 kilograms of potential food per day. In
addition, it is likely that small live animals in the advected water might be killed or
stunned by thermal and/or chemical shock) thereby contributing to the food supply of
vents.
16. The passage provides information for answering which of the following questions?
(A) What causes warm-water vents to form?
(B) Do vent faunas consume more than do deep-sea faunas of similar size?
(C) Do bacteria live in the vent water of smokers?
(D) What role does hydrogen sulfide play in chemosynthesis?
(E) What accounts for the locations of deep-sea smokers?
17. The information in the passage suggests that the majority of deep-sea faunas that live
in nonvent habitats have which of the following characteristics?
(A) They do not normally feed on particles of food in the water.
(B) They are smaller than many vent faunas.
(C) They are predators.
(D) They derive nutrition from a chemosynthetic food source.
(E) They congregate around a single main food source.
18. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) describe, a previously unknown natural phenomenon
(B) reconstruct the evolution of a natural phenomenon
(C) establish unequivocally the accuracy of a hypothesis
(D) survey explanations for a natural phenomenon and determine which is best
supported by evidence
(E) entertain criticism of the author's research and provide an effective response
19. Which of the following-does the author cite as a weakness in the argument that
bacterial chemosynthesis provides the foundation for the food chains at deep-sea vents?
(A) Vents are colonized by some of the same animals found in other areas of the
ocean floor.
(B) Vent water does not contain sufficient quantities of hydrogen sulfide.
(C) Bacteria cannot produce large quantities of food quickly enough.
(D) Large concentrations of minerals are found invent water.
(E) Some bacteria found in the vents are incapable of chemosynthesis.
20. Which of the following is information supplied in the passage that would support the
statement that the food supplies necessary to sustain vent communities must be many
times that of ordinary fallout?
I. Large vent faunas move from vent to vent in search of food.
II. Vent faunas are not able to consume food produced by photosynthesis.
III. Vents are more densely populated than are other deep-sea areas.
(A) I only
(B) III only
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II, and III
21. The author refers to "smokers" (line 38) most probably in order to
(A) show how thermal Shock can provide food for some, vent faunas by stunning small
animals
(B) prove that the habitat of most deep-sea animals is limited to warm-water vents
(C) explain how bacteria carry out chemosynthesis
(D) demonstrate how advection compensates for this lack of food sources on the seafloor
(E) present evidence that bacterial chemosynthesis may be an inadequate source of food
for some vent faunas
22. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the particulate matter
that is carried down from the surface of the ocean?
(A) It is the basis of bacterial chemosynthesis in the vents.
(B) It may provide an important source of nutrition for vent faunas.
(C) It may cause the internal temperature of the vents to change significantly.
(D) It is transported as large aggregates of particles.
(E) It contains hydrogen sulfide.
Throughout human history there have been many stringent taboos concerning
watching other people eat or eating in the presence of others. There have been attempts to
explain these taboos in terms of inappropriate social relationships either between those
who are involved and those who are not simultaneously involved in the satisfaction of a
bodily need, or between those already satiated and those who appear to be, shamelessly
gorging. Undoubtedly such elements exist in the taboos, but there is an additional
element with a much more fundamental importance. In prehistoric times, when food was
so precious and the on-lookers so hungry, not to offer half of the little food one had was
unthinkable, since every glance was a plea for life. Further, during those times, people
existed in nuclear or extended family groups, and the sharing of food was quite literally
supporting one's family or, by extension, preserving one's self.
23. If the argument in the passage is valid, taboos against eating in the presence of others
who are not also eating would be LEAST likely in a society that
(A) had always had a plentiful supply of food
(B) emphasized the need to share worldly goods (C)' had a nomadic rather than an
agricultural way of life
(D) emphasized the value of privacy
(F) discouraged overindulgence
24. The author's hypothesis concerning the origin of taboos against' watching other
people eat emphasizes the
(A) general palatability of food
(B) religious significance of food
(C) limited availability of food
(D) various sources of food
(E) nutritional value of food
25. According to the passage, the author believes that past attempts to explain some
taboos concerning eating are
(A) unimaginative
(B) implausible
(C) inelegant
(D) incomplete
(E) unclear
26. In developing the main idea of the passage, the author does which of the following?
(A) Downplays earlier attempts to explain the origins of a social prohibition.
(B) Adapts a scientific theory and applies it to a spiritual relationship.
(C) Simplifies a complex biological phenomenon I explaining it in terms of social needs.
(D) Reorganizes a system designed to guide personal behavior.
(E) Codifies earlier, unsystematized conjecture about family life.
Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters, followed by
five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the' choices before deciding which one is best.
27. CONSOLIDATION: (A) instigation
(B) fragmentation (C) restriction (D) opposition (E) provocation
28. SECURE: (A) infest (B) unearth
(C) impart (D) implant (E) unfasin
29. FRACAS: (A) rapture (C) novel predicament (E) just reward
(B) relic (D) peaceful situation
30. GRATE: (A) soothe (B) gather .
(C) acknowledge (D) forgive (E) improve
31. HYPERBOLE: (A) equivocation (B) criticism (C) understatement (D) pessimism
(E) skepticism
32. INERRANCY: (A) productivity
(B) generosity (Q volubility (D) fallibility (E) plausibility
33. STEEP: (A) relax (B) repulse
(C) plummet (D) clarify (E) parch
34. RECUMBENT: (A) well fortified
(B) standing up (C) lacking flexibility (D) constricted (E) alarmed .
35. NATTY; (A) sloppy (B) quiet (C) loose
(D) common (E) difficult
36. EXIGENT: (A) unprepossessing (B) inquisitive
(C) devoted (D) absurd (E) deferrable
37. PLATITUDE:
(A) concise formulation
(B) original observation
(C) unsubstantiated claim
(D) relevant concern
(E) insincere remark
SECTION 4
Time—30 minutes
25 Questions
Directions: Each question or group of questions is based on a passage or set of
conditions. In answering some of the questions, it may be useful to draw a rough
diagram. For each question, select the best answer choice given.
Questions 1-7
The manager of a commercial printing firm is scheduling exactly six jobs—P, Q, S, T, W,
and X—for a particular week Monday through Saturday. Each job can be completed in
one full day and exactly one job will be scheduled for each day. The jobs must be
scheduled according to the following conditions:
P must be printed sometime before S is printed.
T must be printed on the day immediately before or the day immediately after the day
on which X is printed.
W must be printed on Thursday.
1. Which of the following is an acceptable schedule of jobs for the week?
Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
(A) P Q T W X S
(B) O W S X T Q
(C) Q W T W S P
(D) T X P W Q S
(E) X P T W S Q
2. Any of the following could be printed on Saturday EXCEPT
(A) P
(B) Q
(C) S
(D) T
(E) X
3. If Q is printed on Wednesday, which of the following could be true?
(A) P is printed on Tuesday.
(B) S is printed on Monday.
(C) S is printed on Friday.
(D) T is printed on Monday.
(E) X is printed on Thursday.
4. If X is printed on Monday, which of the following must be true?
(A) P is printed sometime before Q.
(B) P is printed sometime before W.
(C) Q is printed sometime before S.
(D) W is printed sometime before Q.
(E) W is printed sometime before S.
5. If P is printed on Tuesday, which of the following must be true?
(A) Q is printed on Monday.
(B) S is printed on Thursday.
(C) S is printed on Saturday.
(D) T is printed on Wednesday.
(E) X is printed on Saturday.
6. If T is printed on Tuesday, any of the following could be true EXCEPT:
(A) P is printed on Monday.
(B) Q is printed on Saturday.
(C) S is printed on Wednesday.
(D) S is printed on Friday.
(E) X is primed on Wednesday.
7. If Q is printed on Friday, which of the following must be true?
(A) P is printed on Monday.
(B) P is printed on Wednesday.
(C) S is printed on Saturday.
(D) T is printed on Monday.
(E) X is printed on Tuesday.
8. Although the human population around the forest-kind in Middlesex County has
increased, the amount of forestland has not been reduced. Therefore, the decrease in the
county's songbird population cannot be attributed to the growth in the county's human
population.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?
(A) As the human population of Middlesex County has grown, there has been an
increase in the number of shopping malls built.
(B) The presence of more garbage cans resulting from the increase in the county's
human population ensures the survival of more raccoons, which prey on
songbird eggs whenever available.
(C) There has recently been a decrease in the amount of rain-forest land in Central
and South America, where songbirds spend the winter months.
(D) Although several species of songbirds are disappearing from Middlesex
County, these species are far from being endangered.
(E) The disappearance of songbirds, which eat insects, often results in increased
destruction of trees by insects.
9. In October 1987 the United States stock market suffered a major drop in prices. During
the weeks after the drop, the volume of stocks traded also dropped sharply to well below
what had been the weekly average for the preceding year. However, the volume for the
entire year was not appreciably (different from the preceding year's volume.
Which of the following, if true, resolves the apparent contradiction presented in the
passage above?
(A) Foreign investors usually buy United States stocks only when prices are low.
(B) The number of stock buyers in 1987 remained about the same as it had been the
preceding year.
(C) For some portion of 1987, the volume of stocks traded was higher than the
average for that year.
(D) The greater the volume of stocks traded in a given year, the lower the average
price per share on the United States stock market for that year.
(E) The volume of stocks traded rises and falls in predictable cycles.
10. In a recent year California produced an orange crop equal to only seventy-six percent
of Florida's orange crop. However, when citrus crops as a group, including oranges, were
compared, the California crop was twenty-three percent greater than Florida's crop for the
same year
If the information above is true, which of the -following can properly be concluded about
the Florida and California citrus crops in the year mentioned?
(A) Florida's climate was suited only to growing oranges.
(B) Florida produced larger oranges than California did.
(C) California produced more oranges than it did non-orange citrus.
(D) California's proportion of non-orange citrus crops was higher than Florida's.
(E) California had more acreage that could be devoted to agriculture than did Florida.
Questions 11-15
A conference organizer must select exactly three discussants to respond to a paper to be
presented by an invited speaker. The" three discussants will be selected from seven
volunteers, of whom four—Ito, Kemble, Lopez, and Miller—are known to be friendly to
the speaker's theoretical point of view. The other three—Shapiro, Thompson, and
Ullman—are known to be hostile to the speaker's theoretical point of view. In selecting
the three discussants, the conference organizer must observe the following restrictions:
At least one friendly discussant and at least one hostile discussant must be among
those selected.
If Ito is selected, Thompson cannot be selected.
If either Lopez or Miller is selected, the other must also be selected.
If either Kemble or Ullman is selected, the other must also be selected.
11. Which of the following could be the group of discussants selected?
(A) Ito, Lopez, and Miller
(B) Ito, Shapiro, and Thompson
(C) Kemble, Shapiro, and Ullman
(D) Lopez, Shapiro, and Thompson
(E) Miller, Thompson, and Ullman
2. If Ito is selected as a discussant, which of the following must also be among those
selected?
(A) Lopez
(B) Miller
(C) Shapiro
(D) Thompson
(E) Ullman
13. Which of the following is a pair of volunteers that can be selected together as
discussants?
(A) It® and Lopez
(B) Ito and Shapiro
(C) Kemble and Lopez
(D) Miller and Shapiro
(E) Miller and Ullman
14. The members of the group of discussants would be completely determined if which
of the following additional restrictions had to be observed as well?
(A) Friendly discussants must be in the majority.
(B) Hostile discussants must be in the majority.
(C) Neither Ito nor Thompson can be selected.
(D) Neither Kemble nor Shapiro can be selected.
(E) Neither Lopez nor Thompson cam be selected.
15. The group of discussants selected must include either
(A) Ito or Shapiro
(B) Kemble or Shapiro
(C) Kemble or Thompson
(D) 'Lopez or Miller
(E) Lopez or Ullman
Questions 16-18
At a large airport, the airport loop bus travel to Terminal A, Terminal B and long-term
parking .The bus makes four stops of terminal A –these are called Al. A2, A3, and A4 in
that order three stops at Terminal B--B1 order The bus then stops at Long-Term Parking
From the long term parking the bus proceeds to A1 and repeats entire loop.
At the same airport .an expert monorail travels back and forth between A3and Long term
Parking only, and another express monorail travels back and forth between B2 and Long-
Term Parking only.
The loop bus and two monorails are the only ways to move among the stops above. All
transportation at the airport operates continuously and is available at no charge to all who
wish to travel .
16. To travel from Long-Term Parking to A4 making the fewest possible intermediate
stops, a person must take the
(A) loop bus, but neither monorail
(C) monorail to Terminal A , but neither the loop bus nor the other monorail
(C) loop bus first and the monorail to Terminal A second
(D) monorail to terminal A first and the loop bus second
(E) monorail to Terminal B first and the loop bus second
17 Which of .the following could be the second intermediate stop for a person traveling
from A2 to B3 ?
(A) A3
(B) Bl
(C) B2
(D) B3
(E) Long-Term Parking
18 If all of the following trips are to be made with the fewest possible intermediate
stops, the trip that requires use of both a monorail and the loop bus is
(A) A2 toA3
(B) A4toBl
(C) Long-Term Parking to A2
(D) Long-Term Parking to A4
(E) Long-Term Parking to B2
Questions 19-22
A veterinarian is doing an informal study of the growth of exactly seven poodles—Fido,
Monet, Pal, Quixote, Rover, Spot, and Tache—all six-month-old puppies from the same
litter. The veterinarian's assistant collected the following comparative data concerning the
poodles' heights:
Rover is taller than Tache.
Quixote is taller than Spot.
Fido is taller than Tache.
Pal is taller than Monet, but Tache is taller than Pal.
None of the seven poodles is exactly the same height
as any other poodle from the litter.
19. Which of the following could be the correct ordering of the poodles from tallest to
shortest?
(A) Fido, Rover, Tache, Monet, Quixote, Pal, Spot
(B) Quixote, Spot, Fido, Tache, Pal, Rover, Monet
(C) Rover, Fido, Tache, Pal, Quixote, Monet, Spot
(D) Rover, Tache, Quixote, Pal, Spot, Fido, Monet
(E) Spot, Rover, Fido,* Tache,, Pal, Quixote, Monet
20. Which of the following must be true?
(A) Fido is taller than Pal.
(B) Fido is taller than Rover.
(C) Quixote is taller than Pal.
(D) Spot is taller than Monet.
(E) Tache is taller than Spot.
21. If Spot is taller than Tache, which of the following must be true?
(A) Quixote is taller than Fido.
(B) Quixote is taller than Pal.
(C) Quixote is taller than Rover.
(D) Rover is taller than Fido.
(E) Tache is taller than Quixote.
22. If Tache is taller than Quixote, any of the following can be true EXCEPT:
(A) Monet is taller than Quixote
(B) Quixote is taller than Pal.
(C) Quixote is taller than Rover.
(D) Spot is taller than Monet.
(E) Spot is taller than Pal.
23. Researchers studying sets of identical twins who were raised apart in dissimilar
environments found that in each case the twins were similar in character, medical history,
and life experiences. The researcher saw these results as confirmation of the hypothesis
that heredity-is more important than environment in determining human personalities and
life histories.
The existence of which of the following would tend to weaken the support for the
hypothesis above most seriously?
(A) A set of identical twins raised together who are shown by appropriate tests to have
very similar value systems
(B) A pair of identical twins raised apart who differ markedly with respect to
aggressiveness and other personality traits
(C) A younger brother and older sister raised together who have similar personalities and
life experiences
(D) A mother and daughter who have the same profession even though they have very
different temperaments
(E) A pair of twins raised together who have similar personality traits but different value
systems
24. Because the process of freezing food consumes energy, many people keep their
electric freezers half-empty, using them only to store commercially frozen foods. Yet
freezers that are half-empty often consume more energy than they would if they were
kept fully stocked.
Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the apparent
discrepancy described above?
(A) A given volume of air in a freezer requires much more energy to be maintained at a
temperature below freezing than does an identical volume of frozen food.
(B) The more often a freezer's door is opened, the more energy is required to maintain
that freezer's normal temperature.
(C) When unfrozen foods are placed in- a freezer, the average temperature of a given
volume o air inside that freezer rises temporarily.
(D) A person who normally maintains a half-empty freezer can cut energy costs
considerably by using a freezer that is 50 percent smaller.
(E) An electric freezer can operate efficiently only if chilled air is free to circulate within
the freezing compartment.
25. People often do not make decisions by using the basic economic principle of
rationally weighing all possibilities and then making the choice that can hx expected to
maximize benefits and minimize harm. Routinely, people process information in ways
that . are irrational in this sense.
Any of the following, if true, would provide evidence in support of the assertions above
EXCEPT:
(A) People tend to act on new Information, independent of its perceived relative
merit, rather than on information they already have.
(B) People prefer a major risk taken voluntarily to a minor one that has been forced
on them, even if they know that the voluntarily taken risk is statistically more
dangerous.
(C) People tend to take up potentially damaging habits even though they have clear
evidence that their own peers as well as experts disapprove of such behavior.
(D) People avoid situations in which they could become involved in accidents
involving large numbers of people more than they do situations where singlevictim
accidents are possible, even though they realize that an accident is more
likely in the latter situation than in the former.
(E) People usually give more weight to a physician’s opinion about the best treatment
for a disease than they do to the opinion of a neighbor if they realize that the
neighbor is not an expert in disease treatment.
SECTION 5
Time—30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions :- Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of
words.- Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
1. The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so Simple to
state and to grasp that there is a tendency to------its significance.
(A) underrate
(B) control
(C) reassess
(D) praise'
(E) eliminate
2 Their mutual teaming seemed......., but n fact it
------a long-standing hostility.
(A) aimless produced
(B) friendly masked
(C) playful, contravened
(D) bitter, revealed
(E) clever.. averted
3 Noting that few employees showed any.......for
complying with the corporation's new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude
that acceptance of the regulations would be------, at best.
(A) aptitude.. unavoidable
(B) regard.. indeterminate
(D) respect.. negotiable
(E) patience.. imminent
(E) enthusiasm.. grudging
4. It has been argued that politics as------, whatever
its transcendental claims, has always been the systematic organization of common
hatreds.
(A) a theory
(B) an ideal
(C) a practice
(D) a.contest
(E) an enigma
5. In many science fiction films, the opposition of good
and evil is portrayed as a------between technology,
which is------, and .the errant will of a depraved
intellectual.
(A) Fusion.. Useful
(B) Struggle.. Dehumanizing
(C) Parallel.. Unfettered
(D) Conflict.. Beneficent
(E) Similarity.. Malevolent
6. Although scientists claim that the seemingly------
language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of fiction, the
language of science, like all language, is inherently------.
(A),ornamental.. subtle
(B) unidimensional. .unintelligible
(C) symbolic.. complex
(D) literal.. allusive
(E) subjective metaphorical -
7. In recent decades the idea that Cézanne influenced
Cubism has been caught in the-------between art
historians who credit Braque with its invention and those who------Picasso.
(A) crossfire .tout
(B) interplay.. advocate
(C) paradox.. prefer
(D) deliberation.,. attribute
(E) tussle.. substitute
Directions: in each of the following questions, five lettered pairs of words or phrases
follow a related pair of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a
relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8. DISGUISE: IDENTIFICATION::
(A) equivocation: ambiguity
(B) facade: decoration (Q forgery: wealth
(D) camouflage: detection.
(E) manipulation: advantage
9. BIRD: FEATHERS ::
(A) mammal: spine
(B) hand: fingers
(C) branch; fruit
(D) limb: fur
(E) fish .-scales
10. ELBOW: JOINT::
(A) cell: tissue
(B) corpuscle: blood
(C) muscle: bone
(D) skull: skeleton
(E) heart: organ
11. ENDOW: INC6ME::
(A) emit: signals
(B) endorse: approval (Q enchant: magic
(D) embark: voyage
(E) endure: hardships
12. BOMBAST: POMPOUS ::
(A) prose: economical
(C) circumlocution: patient
(D) prattle: succinct
(D) verbiage: mundane
(E) tirade: critical
13. CARET: INSERTION::
(A) pound: heaviness
(B) tongs: extraction
(C) comma: pause
(D) quotation: agreement
(E) clip: attachment
14. OPAQUE: LIGHT::
(A) inaudible: sound
(B) unbreakable: plastic
(C) reflective: mirror
(D) nonporous : liquid
(E) viscous: fluid
15. FEARLESS: DAUNT::
(A) perplexed: enlighten
(B) nondescript: neglect
(C) avaricious: motivate
(D) impassive: perturb
(E) tranquil: pacify
16. QUERULOUS: COMPLAIN
(A) humble: fawn
(B) prodigal: spend
(D) treacherous: trust
(E) laconic: talk
(F) culpable: blame
Directions: Each’ passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content.
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
(This passage is from a book published in 1975.)
That Louise Nevelson is believed by many critics to be the greatest twentieth-century
sculptor is all the more remarkable because the greatest resistance to women artists has
been, until recently, in the field of sculpture Since Neolithic times, sculpture has been
considered the prerogative of men, partly, perhaps, for purely physical reasons: it was
erroneously assumed that women were not suited for the hard manual labor required in
sculpting stone, carving wood, or working in metal. It has been only during the twentieth
century that women sculptors have been recognized as major artists,/ and it has been in
the United States, especially since the decades of the fifties and sixties, that women
sculptors have shown the greatest originality and creative power. Their rise to
prominence parallels-the development of sculpture itself in the United States: while there
had been a few talented sculptors in the United States before the 1940's, it was only after
1945—when New York was rapidly becoming the art capital of the world—that
major sculpture was produced in the United States. Some of the best was the work of
women.
By far most outstanding of these women is Louise Nevelson, who in the eyes of many
critics is the most original female artist alive today. One famous and influential critic,
Hilton Kramer, said of her work, "For myself, I think Ms. Nevelson succeeds where the
painters often fail."
Her works have been compared to the Cubist constructions of Picasso, the Surrealistic
objects of Miro, and the Merzbau of Schwitters. Nevelson would be the first to admit that
she has been influenced by ail of these, as well as by African sculpture, and by Native
American and pre-Columbian art, but she has absorbed all these influences and still
created a distinctive art that expresses the urban landscape and the aesthetic sensibility of
the twentieth century. Nevelson says, "I have always wanted to show the world that art is
everywhere, except that it has to pass through a creative mind."
Using mostly discarded wooden objects like packing crates, broken pieces of furniture,
and abandoned architectural ornaments, all of which she has hoarded for years, she
assembles architectural constructions of great beauty and power. Creating very freely
with no sketches, she glues and nails objects together, paints them black, or more rarely
white or gold, and places them in boxes. These assemblages, walls, even entire
environments create a mysterious, almost awe-inspiring atmosphere. Although she has
denied any symbolic or religious intent in her works, their three-dimensional grandeur
and even their titles, such as Sky Cathedral and Night Cathedral, suggest such
connotations. In some ways, her most ambitious works are closer to architecture than to
traditional sculpture, but then neither Louise Nevelson nor her art fits into any neat
category.
17. The passage focuses primarily on which of the following?
(A) A general tendency in twentieth-century art
(B) The work of a particular artist
(C) The artistic influences on women sculptors
(D) Critical responses to twentieth-century sculpture
(E) Materials used by twentieth-century sculptors
18. Which of the following statements is supported by information given in the passage?
(A) Since 1945 women sculptors in the United States have produced more sculpture
than have men sculptors.
(B) Since 1950 sculpture produced in the United States has been the most original
and creative sculpture produced anywhere.
(C) From 1900 to 1950 women sculptors in Europe enjoyed more recognition for
their work than did women sculptors in the United States.
(D) Prior to 1945 there were many women sculptors whose work was ignored by
critics.
(E) Prior to 1945 there was little major sculpture produced by men or women
sculptors working in the United States.
19. The author quotes Hilton Kramer in lines 25-27 most probably in order to illustrate
which of the following?
(A) The realism of Nevelson's work .
(B) The unique qualities of Nevelson's style
(C) The extent of critical approval of Nevelson's work
(D) A distinction*between sculpture and painting
(E) A reason for the prominence of women sculptors since the 1950's
20. Which of the following is one way in which Nevelson's art illustrates her theory as it
is expressed in lines 36-38?
(A) She sculpts in wood rather than in metal or stone.
(B) She paints her sculptures and frames them in boxes.
(C) She makes no preliminary sketches but rather allows the sculpture to develop as
she works.
(D) She puts together pieces of ordinary objects once used for different purposes to
make her sculptures.
(E) She does not deliberately attempt to convey symbolic or religious meanings
through her sculpture.
21. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes which of the following
about Nevelson's sculptures?
(A) They suggest religious and symbolic meanings.
(B) They do not have qualities characteristic of 1 sculpture.
(C) They are mysterious and awe-inspiring, but not beautiful.
(D) They are uniquely American in style and sensibility.
(E) They show the influence of twentieth-century architecture.
22. The author regards Nevelson's stature in the art world as "remarkable" (line 3) in part
because of which of the following?
(A) Her work is currently overrated.
(B) Women .sculptors have found it especially difficult to be accepted and recognized as
major artists.
(C) Nevelson's sculptures are difficult to understand.
(D) Many art critics have favored painting over sculpture in writing about developments
in the-art world.
(E) Few of the artists prominent in the twentieth century have been sculptors.
23. Which of the following statements about Nevelson's sculptures can be inferred from
the passage?
(A) They are meant for display outdoors.
(B) They are often painted in several colors.
(C) They are sometimes very large.
(D) They are hand carved by Nevelson.
(E) They are built around a central wooden object.
Volcanic rock that forms as fluid lava chills rapidly is called pillow lava. This rapid
chilling occurs when lava erupts directly into water (or beneath ice) or when it flows
across a shoreline and into a body of water. While the term "pillow lava" suggests a
definite shape, in fact geologists disagree. Some geologists argue that pillow lava is
characterized by discrete, ellipsoidal masses. Others describe pillow lava as a tangled
mass of cylindrical, interconnected flow lobes. Much of this controversy probably results
from unwarranted extrapolations-of the original configuration of pillow flows from twodimensional
cross sections of eroded pillows in land outcroppings. Virtually any cross
section cut through a tangled mass of interconnected flow lobes would give the
appearance of a pile of discrete ellipsoidal masses. Adequate three-dimensional images of
intact pillows are essential for defining the true geometry of pillowed flows and thus
ascertaining their mode of origin. Indeed, the term "pillow," itself suggestive of discrete
masses, is probably a misnomer.
24. Which of the following is a fact presented in the passage? ,
(A) The shape of the connections between the separate, sacklike masses in pillow
lava is unknown.
(B) More accurate cross sections of pillow lava would reveal the mode of origin.
(C) Water or ice is necessary for the formation of pillow lava.
(D) No three-dimensional examples of intact pillows currently exist.
(E) The origin of pillow lava is not yet known.
25. In the passage, the author is primarily interested in
(A) analyzing the source of a scientific controversy
(B) criticizing some geologists' methodology
(C) pointing out the flaws in a geological study
(D) proposing a new theory to explain existing scientific evidence
(E) describing a physical phenomenon
26. The author of the passage would most agree that the geologists mentioned in line 6
("S geologists") have made which of the following
I. Generalized unjustifiably from available evidence.
II. Deliberately ignored existing counterevidence.
III. Repeatedly failed to take new evidence into account.
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and II only (E) II and in only
27. The author implies that the "controversy" (line 9) might be resolved if
(A) geologists did not persist in using the term "pillow"
(B) geologists did not rely potentially misleading information.
(C) geologists were More willing to confer directly with one another
(D) two-dimensional cross sections of eroded pillows were available
(E) existing pillows in land outcroppings were not so badly eroded
Directions :- Each question below consists of a word printed in capita letters, followed
by five lettered words or phrases Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the i hoices before deciding which one is best
28 PEER
(A) a complicated structure
(B) an insignificant explanation
(C) a subordinate person
(D) an inept musician
(E) an unreliable worker
29 SINCHRONOUS
(A) unusual in appearance
(B) of a distinct origin
(C) occurring at different times
(D) monotonous
(E) shapeless
30 ALIENATE (A) reunite (B) influence (C) relieve (D) match (E) revitalize
31 PREDESTINE (A) jumble (B) doubt (C) leave to chance (D) arrange incorrectly
(E) defy authority
32 AERATE (A) generate (B) create (C) elevate
(D) combine water with (P.} remove air from
33 FALLOW (A) abundant (B) valuable (C) necessary (D) in use (E) in demand
34 CORROBORATE (A) tire (B) rival (C) deny (D) antagonize (E) disengage
35 PERUSE (A) glide along (B) argue against (C) strive lor (D) pick up (f )
glance at
36. SFFMIY (A) indecorous (B) mapparent (C) disconnected (D) disingenuous (F)
deleterious
37 TENUOUS (A) substantial (B) obdurate
(C) permanent (J)) ubiquitous (f ) intelligible
38 GRATUITOUS (A) thankless (B) warranted (C) trying (D) discreet (F)
spurious
VERBAL ABILITY
Section 3 Section 5
Number Answer P + Number Answer P+
1 C 93 1 A 89
2 C 91 2 B 82
3 D 79 3 E 56
4 D 69 4 C 55
5 C 68 5 D 45
6 E 54 6 D 42
7 B 58 7 A 49
8 C 90 8. D 86
9 D 70 9 E 91
10 A 49 10 E 75
11 D 46 11 B 52
12 E 36 12 E 44
13 C 34 13 C 43
14 D 28 14 D 32
15 B 31 15 D 28
16 C 53 16 B 29
17 B 26 17 B 82
18 D 76 18 E 67
19 A 5 0 19 C 54
20 B 56 20 D 68
21 E 58 21 A 55
22 B 70 22 B 89
23 A 70 23 C 61
24 C 84 24 C 70
25 D 66 25 A 47
28 A 40 26 A 56
27 B 85 27 B 43
28 E 87 28 C 85
29 D 79 29 C 90
30 A 78 30 A 81
31 C 70 31 C 81
32 D 54 32 E 72
33 E 32 33 D 37
34 B 33 34 C 37
35 A 24 35 E 37
36 E 22 36 A 27
37 B 22 37 A 24
38 8 18
ANALYTICAL ABILITY
Section 1 Section 4
Number Answer P + Number Answer P+
1 B 76 1 D 90
2 C 83 2 A 86
3 B 69 3 D 59
4 E 32 4 E 56
5 E 34 5 A 59
6 E 51 6 C 61
7 D 99 7 C 61
8 C 62 8 B 75
9 D 72 9 C 76
10 A 60 10 D 88
11 C 57 11 C 83
12 B 54 12 E 41
13 B 57 13 D 33
14 E 38 14 D 24
15 B 66 15 E 18
16 E 54 16 D 60
17 A 29 17 E 38
18 E 24 18 D 52
19 E 51 19 C 73
20 D 60 20 A 68
21 B 48 21 B 59
22 E 35 22 C 50
23 D 62 23 B 72
24 B 61 24 A 64
25 A 19 25 E 38
TEST 4
SECTION 1
Time—30 minutes
Directions : Each sentence below has one or two blanks, in each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of words
or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that fits the meaning of
the sentence as a whole.
1.Although.adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly
sequence, they’re timing------with regard to onset and duration.
(A) huts (B) varies (C) falters (D) accelerates (E) dwindles
2. Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and
enlarged that the------design is no longer------.
(A) pertinent.. relevant
(B) intended.. necessary
(C) embellished.. attractive
(D) appropriate.. applicable
(E) initial . . discernible
3.While the delegate clearly sought to------the optimism that has emerged recently, she
stopped short -f suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce
nothing of significance.
A) substantiate (B) dampen (C) encourage (D) elucidate (E) rekindle
3. The old man could not have been accused of------his affection; his conduct toward
the child betrayed his ------her.
A) lavishing.. fondness for
B) sparing.. tolerance of
C) rationing.. antipathy for
D) stinting.. adoration of
E) promising. . dislike of
4. A leading chemist believes that many scientists have difficulty with
stereochemistry because much of the relevant nomenclature is------, in that it
combines concepts that should be kept— -„
(A) obscure.. interrelated
(B) specialized.. intact
(C) subtle.. inviolate
(D) descriptive.. separate
(E) imprecise.. discrete
6. Among the many------of the project, expense cannot be numbered; the goals of the
project's promoters can be achieved with impressive------.
(A) highlights.. efficiency
(B) features.. savings
(C) disadvantages.. innovation
(D) claims.. speed
(E) defects.. economy
7. Though science is often imagined as a------exploration of external reality, scientists
are no different from anyone else: they are------human beings enmeshed in a web of
personal and social circumstances.
(A) fervent.. vulnerable
(B) neutral.. rational
(C) painstaking.. careless
(D) disinterested.. passionate
(F} Cautious dynamic
Directions: In each of the following questions, five lettered pairs of words or phrases
follow a related pair of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a
relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8. DRAWBRIDGE: CASTLE:: (A) lawn : house , (B) gangway : ship (C) aisle :
stage (D) hallway : building (E) sidewalk : garage
9. INSULIN: PANCREAS:: (A) bile: liver (B) menthol : eucalyptus (C) oxygen: heart
(D) ' honey : bee (E) vanilla: bean
10. TALON : EAGLE :: (A) fang: snake (B) hoof: horse (C) quill: porcupine
(D) tusk : elephant (E) claw: panther
11. ARTICULATE : CLEARLY::
(A) orate: strongly
(B) shout: loudly
(C) Lecture: willfully
(D) malign: incoherently
(E) jest: Belligerently
12. NUANCE: DISTINCTION::
(A) remnants-preservation
(B) Shade: spectrum
(C) Hint: suggestion
(D) Trace: existence
(E) Splinter: disintegration
13. URBANE: GAUCHERIE.:
(A) Confident: coterie
(B) Calculating: imposture
(C) Diffident: goodwill
(D) Fearful’: destruction
(E) Guileless. Chicanery
14. VOTING: ROLL CALL::
(A) Termination: cloture
(B) Amendment: constitution
(C) Majority: concession
(D) Quorum : filibuster
(E) Investigation: legislation
15. DEMUR QUALMS:
(A) Placate: pique
(B) Obligate: benevolence
(C) Atrophy . Rehabilitation
(D) Manipulate: experience
(E) waver: irresoluteness
16. MISER: THRIFT::
(A) Performer: artistry
(B) Chauvinist: patriotism
(C) Mimic: ridicule
(D) Politician: compromise
(E) Scientist : discovery
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by-questions based on its content.
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
Of Homer's two epic poems, the Odyssey has always been more popular than the Iliad,
perhaps because it includes more features of mythology that are accessible to readers. Its
subject (to use Maynard Mack's categories) is "life-as-spectacle," for readers, diverted by
its various incidents, observe its hero Odysseus primarily from without; the tragic Iliad,
however, presents "life-as-experience": readers are asked to identify with the mind of
Achilles, whose motivations render him a not/particularly likable hero. In addition, the
Iliad, more than the Odyssey, suggests the complexity of the gods' involvement in human
actions, and to the extent that modern readers find this complexity a needless
complication, the Iliad is less satisfying than the Odyssey, with its simpler scheme of
divine justice. Finally, since the Iliad presents a historically verifiable action, Troy's
siege, the poem raises historical questions that are absent from the Odyssey's blithely
imaginative world.
17. The author uses Mack's "categories'" (lines 4-5) most probably in order to
(A) argue that the Iliad should replace the Odyssey as the more popular poem
(B) indicate Mack's importance as a commentator" on the Iliad and the Odyssey
(C) suggest one way in which the Iliad and the Odyssey can be distinguished
(D) point out some of the difficulties faced by readers of the Iliad and the Odyssey
(E) demonstrate that the Iliad and the Odyssey can best be distinguished by comparing
their respective heroes
18. The author suggests that the variety of incidents in the Odyssey is likely to deter the
reader from
(A) concentrating on the poem's mythological features
(B) concentrating on the psychological states of the poem's central character
(D) accepting the explanations .hat have been offered for the poem's popularity
(E) accepting the poem's scheme of di\me justice accepting Maynard Mack's theory that
the poem's subject is "life-as-spectacle
19. The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) distinguishing arguments
(B) applying classifications
(C) initiating a debate
(D) resolving a dispute
(E) developing a contract
20. It can be inferred from the passage that a reader of the Iliad is likely to have trouble
identifying poem's hero for which of the following reasons?
(A) The hero is eventually revealed to be unheroic
(B) The hero can be observed by the reader only from without.
(C) The hero's psychology is not historically verifiable
(D) The hero's emotions often do not seem appealing to the reader.
(E) The hero's emotions are not sufficiently various to engage the reader's attention.
Flatfish, such as the flounder, are among the few vertebrates that lack approximate
bilateral symmetry (symmetry in which structures to the left and right of the body's
midline are mirror images). Most striking among
(5) the many asymmetries evident in an adult flatfish is eye placement: before maturity
one eye migrates* so that in an adult flatfish both eyes are on the same side of the head.
While in most species with asymmetries virtually all adults share the same asymmetry,
members of the
(10) starry flounder species can be either left-eyed (both eyes on the left side of head) or
right-eyed. In the waters between the United States and Japan, the starry flounder
populations vary from about 50 percent left-eyed off the United States West Coast,
through about 70 percent left
(15) eyed halfway between the United States and Japan, to nearly 100 percent left-eyed
off the Japanese coast.
Biologists call this kind of gradual variation over a certain geographic range a "cline" and
interpret clines as strong indications that the variation is adaptive, a
(20) response to environmental differences. For the starry flounder this interpretation
implies that a geometric difference (between fish that are mirror images of one another) is
adaptive, that left-eyedness in the Japanese starry flounder has been selected for, which
provokes a
(25) perplexing question: what is the selective advantage in , having both eyes on one
side rather than on the other? The ease with which a fish can reverse the effect of the
sidedness of its eye asymmetry simply by turning around has caused biologists to study
internal anatomy,
(30) especially the optic nerves, for the answer. In all flatfish the optic nerves cross, so
that the right optic nerve is joined to the brain's left side and vice versa. This crossing
introduces an asymmetry, as one optic nerve must cross above or below the other. G. H.
Parker
(35) reasoned that if, for example, a flatfish's left eye
migrated when the right optic nerve was on top, there would be a twisting of nerves,
which might be mechanically disadvantageous. For starry flounders, then, the left-eyed
variety would be selected against, since in a
(40) starry flounder the .left optic nerve is uppermost.
The problem with the above explanation is that the Japanese starry flounder population is
almost exclusively left-eyed, and natural selection never promotes a purely less
advantageous variation. AS other explanations
(45) proved equally untenable, biologists concluded that there is no important adaptive
difference between left-eyedness and right-eyedness and that the two characteristics are
genetically associated with some other adaptively significant characteristic. This situation
is one
(50) commonly encountered by evolutionary biologists, who must often decide whether a
characteristic is adaptive or selectively neutral. As for the left-eyed and right-eyed
flatfish, their difference, however striking, appears to be an evolutionary, red herring.
21. According to the passage, starry flounder differ from most other species of flatfish in
that starry .flounder
(A) are not basically bilaterally symmetric
(B) do not become asymmetric until adulthood
(C) do not all share the same asymmetry
(D) have both eyes on the same side of the head
(E) tend to cluster in only certain geographic regions
22. The author would be, most likely to agree with which of the following statement*
about left-eyedness and right-eyedness in the starry flounder?
I. They are adaptive variations by the starry flounder to environmental differences.
II. They do not seem to give obvious selective advantages to the starry flounder.
III They occur in different proportions in different locations.
(A) I only'"
(B) II only
(C) I and III only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II, and III
23. According to the passage, a possible disadvantage ° associated with eye migration in
flatfish is that the optic nerves can
(A) adhere to one another
(B) detach from the eyes
(C) cross
(D) stretch
(E) twist
24. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage as a whole?
(A) A phenomenon is described and an interpretation presented and rejected.
(B) A generalization is made and supporting evidence is supplied and weighed.
(C) A contradiction is noted and a resolution is suggested and then modified.
(D) A series of observations is presented and explained in terms of the dominant theory
(E) A hypothesis is introduced and corroborated in the light of new evidence.
25. The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?
(A) Why are Japanese starry flounder mostly left eyed?
(B) Why should the eye-sidedness in starry flounder be considered selectively neutral?
(C) Why have biologists recently become interested in whether a characteristic is
adaptive or selectively neutral?
(D) How do the eyes in flatfish migrate?
(E) How did Parker make his discoveries about the anatomy of optic nerves in flatfish?
26. Which of the following is most clearly similar to a cline as it is described in the
second paragraph of the passage?
(A) A vegetable market, in which the various items are grouped according to place of
origin
(B) A wheat field in which different varieties of wheat are planted to yield a crop that
will bring the maximum profit
(C) A flower stall in which the various species of flowers are arranged according to their
price
(D) A housing development in which the length of the front struts supporting the porch
of each house increases as houses are built up the hill
(E) A national park in which the ranger stations are placed so as to be inconspicuous,
and yet as* easily accessible as possible
27. Which of the following phrases from the passage best expresses the author's
conclusion about the meaning of the difference between left-eyed and right-eyed flatfish?
(A) "Most striking" (line 4)
(B) variation is adaptive" (line 19)
(C) mechanically disadvantageous" (lines 37-38)
(D) adaptively significant" (lines 48-49)
(E) "evolutionary red herring" (line 54).
SECTION 3
Time—30 minutes
25 Questions
Directions: Each question or group of questions is based on a passage or set of
conditions. In answering some of the questions, it may be useful to draw a rough
diagram. For each question, select the best answer choice given.
Questions 1-3.
Students at the Elmwood College of Natural Science must complete a total of twelve
courses selected from three different general areas—humanities, natural science, and
social science—in order to graduate. The students must meet the following course
distribution requirements:
At least six of the required twelve courses must be from natural science. At least five of
the required twelve courses must be from Humanities and social science, with at least
one, but no more than three, selected from humanities.
1. If a student has completed six natural science courses, all of the following are possible
groups of courses that fulfill the course distribution requirements EXCEPT
(A) three humanities courses and three social science courses
(B) two humanities courses and four social science courses
(C) one humanities course, one natural science course, and four social science courses
(D) one humanities course, two natural science courses, and three social science courses.
(E) three humanities courses, one natural science course, and two social science courses
2. The minimum number of social science courses required in order to fulfill the course
distribution requirements is
(A) 1(B) 2 (Q 3 (D)4 (E) 5
3. If a student has completed six natural science courses and one social science course,
the possible groups of courses to fulfill the course distribution requirements must include
at least
(A) two humanities courses
(B) three humanities courses
(C) one natural science course
(D) one social science course
(E) three social science courses
One of the world's most celebrated paintings, The Man with the Golden Helmet, long
attributed to Rembrandt, is not a Rembrandt after all. So say several art experts, who base
their conclusion on an analysis of stylistic features, especially details both of shading and
of brushwork. In order to ascertain who really painted the well-known masterpiece, the
experts have begun a series of sophisticated new tests, including one that involves the
activation of neutrons. These tests yield patterns for any painter that are as distinctive as a
good set of fingerprints.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the conclusion of the art experts
depends?
(A) The Mart with the Golden Helmet was not painted during Rembrandt's lifetime.
(B) If even The Man with the Golden Helmet is of questionable attribution, then any
supposedly • authentic Rembrandt has now become suspect.
(C) The painting known as The Man with the Golden Helmet is a copy of a Rembrandt
original.
(D) The original ascription of The Man with the Golden Helmet to Rembrandt was a
deliberate fraud.
(E) There are significant consistencies among authentic Rembrandts in certain matters of
style.
6. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established to
protect workers from accidents and unsafe conditions on the job. There has actually been
an increase in the number of job-related accidents under OSHA. This demonstrates the
agency's ineffectiveness.
Which of the following, if true concerning the period during which the increase occurred,
most seriously weakens the argument above?
(A) A number of job categories, excluded from the jurisdiction of OSHA in the
legislation originally establishing the agency, have continued to be outside OSHA's
jurisdiction.
(B) OSHA has been assigned a greater number of kinds of workplace activities, to
monitor.
(C) There has been an increase in the total number of people at work, and the ratio of
work-related deaths and injuries to size of work force has fallen in OSHA-supervised
occupations
(D) Regulations issued by OSHA have met with political criticism from elected officials
and the mass media.
(E) The increase in job-related accidents has occurred mainly in a single job category,
whereas the number of job-related accidents has remained approximately constant in
other categories.
5. A placebo is a chemically inert substance prescribed more for the mental relief of a
patient than for its effect on the patient's physical disorder. It is prescribed in the hope of
Instilling in the patient a positive attitude toward prospects for his or her recovery. In
some cases, the placebo actually produces improvement in the patient's condition. In
discussing the use and effect of placebos, a well-known medical researcher recently paid
physicians the somewhat offbeat compliment of saying that physicians were the ultimate
placebo.
By comparing a physician to a placebo, the researcher sought to imply that
(A) physicians should always maintain and communicate an optimistic attitude toward
their patients, regardless of the prognosis
(B) the health of some patients can improve simply from their knowledge that they are
under a physician's care
(C) many patients actually suffer from imagined finesses that are best treated by
placebos
(D) physicians could prescribe less medication and achieve the same effect
(E) it is difficult to determine what, if any, effect a physician's behavior has on a
patient's condition
Questions 7-10
A garden plot consists of seven parallel rows of vegetables, the rows numbered
consecutively one through seven In each row a different one of seven vegetables— J, K,
L, M, N, O, P—is to be grown according to the following conditions Neither J nor K, can
be in a row next to the row P is in
M must be grown in either row one or row seven L must be grown in a row next to a row
containing either N or P, or in a row that is the only row between the rows containing N
and P If O is next to only one other row of vegetables, that row must contain K
7 If P is next to M, and O is in the seventh row, in which row must P be planted7
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
8.Which of the following is a possible order for the vegetables in the garden plots
beginning with row one9
(A) L J K N P O M
(B) M P J L N K O
(C) M N L P O J K
(D) M N L P J K O
(E) N P L J M O K
9 If O is in the first row and J is in the sixth row, which vegetable must be in the fourth
row?
(B) L (C) M (D) N (E) P
10 If J, K, L, N, and P are in the inner five rows, which of the following is a possible
ordering of these vegetables in the five rows?
(A) J K L P N
(B) J N L P K
(C) K L J N P.
(D) K N P L J
(E) L J K N P
Questions 11-16
A museum curator must group nine paintings— F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, and O—in twelve
spaces numbered consecutively from 1-12. The paintings must be in three groups, each
group representing a different century. The groups must be separated from each other by
at least one unused wall space. Three of the paintings are from the eighteenth century,
two from the nineteenth century, and four from the twentieth century
Unused wall spaces cannot occur within groups.
G and J are paintings from different centuries.
J, K, and L are all paintings from the same century.
Space number, 5 is always empty.
F and M are eighteenth-century paintings.
N is a nineteenth-century painting.
11. If space 4 is to remain empty, which of the following
is true?
(A) Space number 10 must be empty
(B) The groups of paintings must be hung in chronological order by century.
(C) An eighteenth-century painting must be hung in space 3.
(D) A nineteenth-century painting must be hung in space 1.
(E) A twentieth-century painting must be hung in space 12.
12. If the paintings are hung in reverse chronological order by century, the unused wall
spaces could be
(A) 1,5, and 10
(B) 1,6, and 10
(C) 4, 7, and 8
(D) 5, 8, and 12
(E) 5,9, and 10
13. Which of the following is a space that CANNOT be occupied by a nineteenth-century
painting?
(A) Space 1
(B) Space 6
(C) Space 8
(D) Space 11
(E) Space 12
14. If J hangs in space 11, which of the following is a possible arrangement for spaces 8
and 9 ?
(A) F in 8 and M in 9
(B) K in 8 and G in 9 (Q N in 8 and G in 9
(D) 8 unused, and H in 9
(E) 8 unused and F in 9
15. If the twentieth-century paintings are hung in spaces 1 - 4, which of the following
CANNOT be true?
(A) Space 8 is unused.
(B) Space 9 is unused.
(C) F is hung in space 6.
(D) M is hung in space -12.
(E) N is hung in space 9.
16. If the first five paintings, in numerical order of spaces, are F, O, M, N, G, which of
the following must be true?
(A) Either space 1 or space 4 is unused.
(B) Either space 7 or space 12 is unused.
(C) H hangs in space 11.
(D) Two unused spaces separate the eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century paintings.
(E) Two unused spaces separate the nineteenth-century and twentieth-century paintings.
Questions 17-22
In a telecommunications cable assembly plant, twisting plastic-coated wires together
assembles cables. There are wires of exactly six different solid colors—red, yellow,
violet, green, white, and black. Wires must be assembled into single cables according to
the following rules:
I
Each cable must contain at least three wires and wires of at least three different colors.
At most two wires in a single cable can be black
At most two wires in a single cable can be white.
There can be at most one wire of each of the other colors in a single cable.
If one wire is red, then one wire must be yellow.
If one wire is violet, then no wire can be green.
17. Which of the following could be the complete set of wires in an acceptable cable?
(A) green wire, a white wire, and a violet wire
(B) A violet wire, a black wire, and a white wire
(C) A red wire, a black wire, and a green wire
(D) A yellow wire and exactly two black wires
(E) Exactly two black wires and exactly two white wires
18. The maximum number of wires that can be used in an acceptable cable is
(A) 8
(B) 7
(C) 6
(D) 5
(E) 4
19. If exactly one black wire and exactly one white wire are used in an assembled cable,
which of the following must be true?
(A) The cable contains no more than five wires.
(B) The cable contains exactly six wires.
(C) The cable contains a yellow wire.
(D) The cable does not contain a red wire.
(E) The cable does not contain a violet wire.
20. If a white wire and a violet wire must be among *he wires chosen for a particular
cable., any of the following pairs of wires could complete the cable EXCEPT a
(A) black wire and a second white wire
(B) yellow wire and a second white wire
(C) yellow wire and a black wire
(D) red Wire and a yellow wire
(E) red wire and a black wire
21 If an assembled cable consists of exactly five wires, each a different color, it could be
true that a color NOT used is
(A) black
(B) white
(C) green
(D) red
(E) yellow
22.If there is an additional requirement that violet must be used if yellow is used, which
of the following must be true?
(A) No cable contains fewer than six wires.
(B) No cable contains more than five wires.
(C) Green is never used if red is used.
(D) Red is always used if violet is used.
(E) Black is used exactly once if yellow is used.
23. Being an only child has little to do with a child's social development. A recent study
that followed thirty only children and thirty-five first-born children to the age of three
found that the two groups of children behaved very similarly to each other toward their
peers, their parents, and other adults.
Which of the following, if true, most weakens the conclusion drawn above?
(A) The groups being compared did not contain the same number of children.
(B) More time was spent observing the interactions of children with their mothers than
with their fathers.
(C) Most of the researchers involved in the study were persons who had no brothers-or
sisters.
(D) The first-born children were, on the average, nearly, three when their parents had
second children.
(E) The "other adults" described in the study consisted mainly of members of the
research team.
24. Manufacturers of household appliances in the United States are introducing an array
of computerized technologies in the work of many of their factories in an effort to regain
a lead, eroded by international competition. On the basis of changes that have already
taken place, experts predict a golden age for the consumer of better-designed and betterbuilt
products.
Which of the following, if, true, would LEAST support the experts' claim that appliances
produced by computerized technologies will be better built?
(A) Computerized inventory procedures ensure that parts are ordered in sufficient
quantities and that production moves smoothly and consistently.
(B) Computer-directed machines carry out repetitive tasks with the result that errors due
to human fatigue are eliminated.
(C) Computer-controlled ultrasound devices are better able to detect hidden flaws and
defects that require repair than are human inspectors.
(D) The flow of heat used to weld parts together is more consistent when directed by
computer programs and results in a more accurate and uniform weld.
(E) Computer-driven screwdrivers ensure that screws used in appliances will be
consistently tight.
25. Geographers and historians have traditionally held the view that Antarctica was first
sighted around 1820, but some sixteenth-century European maps show a body that
resembles the polar landmass, even though explorers of the period never saw it. Some
scholars, therefore, argue that the continent must have been discovered and mapped by
the ancients, whose maps are known to have served as models for the European
cartographers.
Which of the following, if true, is w damaging to the inference drawn by the scholars?
(A) The question of who first sighted Antarctica in modern times is still much debated,
and no one has been able to present conclusive evidence.
(B) Between 3,000 and 9,000 years ago, the world was warmer than it is now, and the
polar landmass. was presumably smaller.
(C) There are only a few sixteenth-century global maps that show a continental landmass
at the South Pole.
(D) Most attributions of surprising accomplishments to ancient civilizations or even
extraterrestrials are eventually discredited or rejected as preposterous.
(E) Ancient philosophers believed that there had to be a large landmass at the South
Pole to balance the northern continents and make the world symmetrical.
SECTION 4
Time—30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of
words. Choose the word or set of words for each) blank that best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
1. Social scientists have established fairly clear-cut ------- that describe the appropriate
behavior of children and adults, but there seems to be ------- about what constitutes
appropriate behavior for adolescents.
(A) functions.. rigidity
(B) estimates.. indirectness
(C) norms.. confusion
(D) regulations.. certainty
(E) studies.. misapprehension
2. As long as nations cannot themselves accumulate enough physical power to dominate
all others, they must depend on------.
(A) allies (B) resources (C) freedom (D) education (E) self-determination
3. We realized that John was still young and impressionable, but were nevertheless
surprised at his------.
(A) naiveté (B) obstinate ness (Q decisiveness (D) ingeniousness (E) resolve
4. Although Mount Saint Helens has been more during the last 4,500 years than any other
Volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption---
---its violent, nature.
(A) awe-inspiring.. restrained
(B) gaseous.. confirmed
(C) explosive.. belied
(D) familiar.. moderated'
(E) volatile.. suggested
5. Changes of fashion and public taste are often------ and resistant to analysis, and yet
they are among the most------gauges of the state of the public's collective consciousness.
(A) transparent.. useful
(B) ephemeral.. sensitive
(C) faddish.. underutilized
(D) arbitrary.. problematic
(E) permanent.. reliable
6. The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost
necessarily irrespon-sib1 v that the possession of great gifts------the ------to abuse them.
(A) negates.. temptation
(B) controls.. resolution
(C) engenders.. propensity
(D) tempers. .proclivity
(E) obviates.. inclination
7. The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true
appreciation of the music is an------process closed to the uninitiated listener, however
enthusiastic.
(A) unreliable (B) arcane (C) arrogant (D) elementary (E) intuitive
Directions: in each of the following questions, five lettered pairs of words or phrases
follow a related pair of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a
relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8. FORGERY : COUNTERFEIT::
(A) duplicity: testimony
(B) arson: insurance
(C) embezzlement: fraud
(D) theft: punishment
(E) murder: life
9. NICOTINE: TOBACCO::
(A) calcium : bone. (B) iodine: salt (C) protein : meat (D) pulp : fruit (E) caffeine:
coffee
10. CANDLE: WAX::
(A) metal: corrosion
(B) leather: vinyl
(C) curtain: pleat
(D) tire: rubber
(E) wood: ash
11. BIT: PRILL::
(A) nut: bolt (B) nail: hammer (C) Made: razor -(D) stapler: paper (E) chisel: stone
12. MISJUDGE: ASSESS ::
(A) misconstrue: interpret
(B) misconduct: rehearse
(C) misinform : design
(D) misguide : duplicate
13. COMPLIANT: SERVILE::
(A) trusting: gullible
(B) cringing: fawning
(C) pleasant: effortless
(D) adventurous: courageous
(E) arduous: futile
14. ASTRINGENT: CONTRACTION
(A) anesthetic : insensibility.
(B) analgesic: pain
(C) coagulant: euphoria
(D) stimulant: drowsiness
(E) emollient: irritation
15. NOMINAL : FIGUREHEAD ::
(A) absolute: autocrat
(B) cloistered : bishop
(C) military: tribunal
(D) statutory: defendant
(E) monolithic: legislature
16. PHILOSOPHER : COGITATE ::
(A) linguist: prevaricate
(B) politician : capitulate
(C) scholar: extemporize
(D) misanthrope: repeat
(F.} iconoclast :attack
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage
If a supernova (the explosion of a massive star) triggered star formation from dense
clouds of gas and dust, and if the most massive star to be formed from the cloud evolved
into a supernova and triggered a new round of star formation, and so on, then a chain of
star-forming regions would result If many such chains were created in a differentially
rotating galaxy, the distribution of stars would resemble the observed distribution in, a
spiral galaxy
This line of reasoning underlies an exciting new theory of spiral-galaxy structure A
computer simulation based on this theory has reproduced the appearance of many spiral
galaxies without assuming an underlying density wave, the hallmark of the most widely
accepted theory of the large-scale structure of spiral galaxies That theory maintains that a
density wave of spiral form sweeps through the central plane of a galaxy, compressing
clouds of gas and dust, which collapse into stars that form a spiral pattern
17. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) describe what results when a supernova triggers the creation pf chains of starforming
regions
(B) propose a modification in the most widely accepted theory of spiral-galaxy structure
(C) compare and contrast the roles of clouds of gas and dust in two theories of spiralgalaxy
structure
(D) describe a new theory of spiral-galaxy structure and contrast it with the most widely
accepted' theory
(E) describe a new theory of spiral-galaxy structure and discuss a reason why it is
inferior .to the most widely accepted theory
18 The passage implies that, according to the new theory of spiral-galaxy structure,
supernovas can create a spiral galaxy when the supernovas are
(A) producing an underlying density wave
(B) affected by a density wave of spiral form
(C) distributed in a spiral pattern
(D) located in the central plane of a gala/y
(E) located in a differentially rotating galaxy
19 Which of the following, if true, would most discredit the new theory as described in
the passage?
(A) The exact mechanism by which a star becomes a supernova is not yet completely
known and may even differ for different stars
(B) Chains of star-forming regions like those postulated in the new theory have been
observed in the vicinity of dense clouds of gas and dust
(C) The most massive stars formed from supernova explosions are unlikely to evolve
into supernovas
(D) Computer simulations of supernovas provide a poor picture of what occurs just
before a supernova explosion
(E) A density wave cannot compress clouds of gas and dust to a density high enough to
create a star
20 The author's attitude toward the new theory of spiral-galaxy structure can best be
described as
(A) euphoric (B) enthusiastic (C) concerned (D) critical (E) disputatious
The first mention of slavery in the statutes of the English colonies of North America does
not occur until after 1660 some forty years after the importation of the first Black people
Lest we think that slavery existed in
(5) fact before it. did in law. Oscar and Mary Handlin assure UN that the status of Black
people down to the 1660's wax that of servants A critique of the Handlin`s interpretation
of win legal slavery did not appear until the 1660`s suggests that assumptions about the
relation
(10) between slavery and racial prejudice should be reexamined and that explanations for
the different treatment of Black slaves in North and South America should be expanded.
The Handlins explain the appearance of legal slavery
(15) by arguing that, during the 1660's, the position of White servants was improving
relative to that of Black servants Thus, the Handlins contend, Black and White servants,
heretofore, treated alike, each attained a different status. There are, however, important
objections to this argument.
(20) First, the Handlins cannot adequately demonstrate that the White servant's position
was improving during and after the 1660's; several acts of the Maryland and Virginia
legislatures indicate otherwise. Another flaw in the Handlins' interpretation
(25)is their assumption that prior to the establishment of legal slavery there was no
discrimination against Black people. It is true that before the 1660's Black people were
rarely called slaves. But "this should not overshadow evidence from the 1630's on that
points to racial discrimination without using the term slavery. Such discrimination
(30) sometimes stopped short of lifetime servitude or inherited status—the two attributes
of true slavery—yet in other cases it included both. The Handlins' argument excludes, the
real possibility that Black people in the
(35)English colonies were never treated as the equals of White people.
This possibility has important ramifications. If from the outset Black people were
discriminated against, then legal slavery should be viewed as a reflection and an
(40) extension of racial prejudice rather than, as many historians including the Handlins
have argued, the cause of prejudice. In addition, the existence of discrimination before
the advent of legal slavery offers a further explanation for the harsher treatment of Black
slaves in
(45) North than in South America. Freyre and Tannenbaum have rightly argued that the
lack of certain traditions in North America—such as a Roman conception of slavery And
a Roman Catholic emphasis on equality—explains why the treatment of Black slaves was
more severe there
(50) than in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of South America. But this cannot be
the whole explanation since u is merely negative, based only on a lack of something. A
more compelling explanation is that the early and sometimes extreme racial
discrimination in the English
(55) colonies helped determine the particular nature of the slavery that followed.
21 Which of the following statements, best describes the organization of lines 1-8 of the
passage?
(A) A historical trend is sketched and an exception to that trend is cited
(B) Evidence for a historical irregularity is mentioned and a generalization from that
evidence is advanced
(C) A paradox about the origins of an institution is pointed out and the author's
explanation of the paradox is expounded
(D) A statement about a historical phenomenon is offered and a possible
misinterpretation of that statement is addressed
(E) An interpretation the rise of an institution is stated and evidence for that
interpretation is provided.
22. Which of the following is the most logical inference to be drawn from the passage
about the effects of "several acts of the Maryland and Virginia legislatures" (lines 22-23)
passed during and after the 1660's?
(A) The acts negatively affected the pre-1660's position of Black as well as of White
servants.
(B) The acts had the effect of impairing rather than improving the position of White
servants relative to What it had been before the 1660Ts.
(C) The acts had a different effect on the position of White servants than did many of the
acts passed during this time by the legislatures of Bother colonies.
(D) The acts, at the very least, caused the position of White servants to remain no better
than it had been before the 1660'$.
(E) The acts, at the very least, tended to reflect the attitudes toward Black servants that
already existed before the 1660's.
23. With which of the following statements regarding the status of Black people in the
English colonies of North America before the 166Q's would the author be LEAST likely
to agree?
(A) Although Black people were not legally considered to be slaves, they were often
called slaves.
(B) Although subject to some discrimination, Black people had a higher legal status than
they did after the 1660's.
(C) Although sometimes subject to lifetime servitude, Black people were not legally
considered to be slaves.
(D) Although often not treated the same as White people, Black people, like many White
people, possessed the legal status of servants.
(E) Although apparently subject to more discrimination after 1630 than before 1630,
Black people from 1620 to the 1660's were legally considered to be servants.
24. According to the passage, the Handlins have argued which of the following about the
relationship between racial prejudice and the institution of legal slavery in the English
colonies of North America?
(A) Racial prejudice and the institution of slavery arose simultaneously.
(B) Racial prejudice most often took the form the form of imposition of inherited status,
one of the attributes of slavery.
(C) The source of racial prejudice was the institution of slavery.
(D) Because of the influence of the Roman Catholic church, racial prejudice sometimes
did not , result in slavery.
(E) Although existing 4n a lesser form before the1660's, racial prejudice increased
sharply after slavery was legalized.
25. The passage suggests that the existence of a Roman conception of slavery in Spanish
and Portuguese colonies had the effect of
(A) extending rather than causing racial prejudice in these colonies
(B) hastening the legalization of slavery in these colonies
(C) mitigating some of the conditions of slavery for Black people in these colonies.
(D) delaying the introduction of slavery into the English colonies
(E) bringing about an improvement in the treatment of Black slaves in the English
colonies
26. The author considers the explanation put forward by Freyre and Tannenbaum for the
treatment accorded Black slaves in the English-colonies of North America to be
(A) ambitious but misguided
(B) valid but limited
(C) popular but suspect
(D) anachronistic and controversial f
(E) premature and illogical
27. With which of the following statements regarding the reason for the introduction of
legal slavery in the English colonies of North America 'would the author be most likely to
agree?
(A) The introduction is partly to be explained by reference to the origins of slavery,
before the 1660's, in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies.
(B) The introduction is to be explained by reference to a growing consensus beginning in
the ,1630's about what were the attributes of true slavery.
(C) The introduction is more likely to be explained by reference to a decline than to an
improvement in the position of White servants in the colonies during and after the 1660's.
(D) The introduction is more likely to be explained by reference to the position of Black
servant in the colonies in the 1630's than by reference to their position in the 1640's and
1650's.
(E) The introduction is more likely to be explained by reference to the history of Black
people in the colonies before 1660 than by reference to the improving position of White
servants during and after the 1660's.
Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters, followed by
five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the before deciding which one is best.
28.ASSET- (A) duty (B) qualification (C) denial (D) liability (E) instability
29. CONCUR: (A) expose (B) incite 4C) prolong (D) dissent (E) forgive
30.AMALGAMATE: (A) congregate
{B) insulate (C) isolate (D) layer (E) revive
31.FERROUS:
A) affected by rust (B) containing no iron fO chemically inert |D) combined with water
(F) permanently magnetized
32.PHLEGMATIC: (A) vivacious (B) valiant |O and (D) healthy (E) mature
33. PRODIGIOUS: (A) implicit (B) slight
(C) constant (D) unnecessary (E) premature
34. CORROBORATION:
(A) weakening of utility
(B) lessening of certainty
(C) reduction in generality
(D) implausibility
(E) inadequacy
35. PALPABILITY: (A) infertility
(B) inflammability (C) intangibility (D) intractability (E) intolerability
36. ALACRITY:
(A) hesitance and reluctance
(B) caution and fear
(C) cynicism and skepticism
(D) suspicion and doubt
(E) concern and anxiety
37. MANNERED: (A) plain (B) infantile (C) progressive (D) ignorant (E) natural
38. DISSEMBLE: (A) act conventionally (B) put together (C) appear promptly
(D) behave honestly (E) obtain readily
SECTION 5
Time—30 minutes
30 Questions
Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers.
Figures: Position of points, angles, regions, etc. can be assumed to be in the order
shown; and angle measures can be assumed to be positive.
Lines shown as straight can be assumed to be straight.
Figures can be assumed to lie in a plane unless otherwise indicated.
Figures that accompany questions are intended to provide information useful in
answering the questions. However, unless a note states that a figure is drawn to scale, you
should solve these problems NOT by estimating sizes by sight or by measurement, but by
using your knowledge of mathematics (sec Example 2 below).
Directions: Each of the Questions 1-15 consists of two quantities, one in Column A and
one in Column B. You are to compare the two quantities and choose
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Note: Since there are only four choices, NEVER MARK (E).
Common
Information: In a question, information concerning one or both of the quantities to be
compared is centered above the two columns. A symbol that appears in both columns
represents the same thing in Column A as it does in Column B.
Column A Column B Sample Answers
Example 1: 2 X 6 2 + 6
Examples 2-4 refer to ΔPQR.
Example 2:
(since equal measures cannot
be assumed, even though PN
and NQ appear equal)
Example 3: x y
(since N is between P and Q)
Example 4: w + z 180
(since PQ is a straight line)
A if the quantity in Column A is greater,
B if the quantity in Column B is greater,
C if the two quantities are equal,
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given
Column A Column B
i t 3* + 4 = 13
11 -y = 6
1 6x 4y
Column A Column B
x > 0
7 x 5 1
x
At noon today, Ann, Betty, Cathy, and Dot had
exactly $1 apiece. Then during the next five minutes,
Ann gave $1 to Betty who gave $2 to Cathy who gave
S3 to Dot None of them gave or received an> other
money.
2. The amount of money The amount of money
Betty had left at five .Cathy had left at five
minutes past noon minutes past noon today
today
3. The number of prune The number of odd
numbers less than IS integers greater than * 5
and less than 1 5 '
A I* 24\ 7
1
4- y'2sj'3 l
x + 17 - -8-5. * + 8 / -17
6. x y
»
8 t w 9
33(125) 32(375)
10 The volume of a cube Four times the
volume with edge of length, of a cube with
edge 4 centimeters " of length 2
centimeters
11 x y
The sum of 3 integers is 5 1
12 The average (arithmetic The median of the
mean) of the 3 integers 3 integers
\
. >
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A if the quantity in Column A is greater,
B if the quantity in Column B is greater,
C if the two quantities are equal,
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given
Column A Column B
The area of the circular region with center O is I6Π, and v,
w, x, y, and z represent the lengths of the line segments
13 8 Π v+w+x+y + z
Column A Column B
d 0
14 The total interest 11 { d} dollars
earned on d dollars 3 100
invested for 3 months
at 1 1 percent simple
annual interest
y > 0, y ≠ 1
15 √ y y2
Directions: Each of the Questions 16-30 has five answer choices. For each of these
questions, select the best of the answer choices given. .
' ', .
16. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
=
2 + 2 + 2 + 2
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E)16
17. Which of the following is a multiple of both 7 and 13?
(A) 52 (B) 65 (C) 77 (D) 156 (E) 182
18. Mario purchased $6QO worth of traveler's checks. If each check was worth either
$20 or $50, which of the following CANNOT be the number of $20 checks purchased?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 25
19. The figure above shows the floor dimensions of an L-shaped room. AH angles shown
are right angles. If carpeting costs $20 per square meter, what will carpeting for the entire
floor of the room cost?
(A) $800
(B) $1,280
(C) $1,600 ' (D) $1,680
(E) $2,320
20. If the value of the expression above is to be halved by doubling exactly one of the
five numbers a, b, c, d, or e, which should be doubled?
(A) a (B) b (C) c (D) d (E) e
Question.2J-25 refer to he following graph.
HEALTH EXPENDITURES IN THE UNITED STATES,
1950 AND 1979
21. For how many of the categories was the percent of total health expenditures greater in
1979 than
(A) Two (B) Three (C) Four (E) Seven
22. Of the following categories, for which was the percent of total health expenditures in
1979 least?
(A) Dentist services
(B) Nursing home care
(C) Drugs and drug sundries
(D) Government public health activities
(E) Research
23 In 1979 for how many of the categories was the amount of health expenditures less
than $21 billion?
(A) Two (B) Three (C) Nine
(D) Ten (E) Twelve
24 Approximately what was the ratio of health expenditures for hospital care in 1979 to
health expenditures for hospital care m 1950 ?
(A) 22/1
(B) 17/1
(C) 15/1
(D) 25/2
(E) 4/3
25. Which of the following can be inferred from the graph?
I. The number of patients needing hospital care increased from 1950 to
1979
II. The dollar amount of health expenditures for construction was greater
an 1979 than in 1950
III. In 1979 the dollar amount of health expenditures for dentist services
was more than half the dollar amount of health expenditures for
physician services
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and II (E) II and III
26. If the perimeter of the rectangle above is 36, then l =
(A) 9 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 28 (E) 32
.
27.If 4x is 6 less than 4y, then y – x = -------
(A) -24 (B) -3/2 (C) -2/3 (D) 3/2 (E) 24
28. The difference between two positive numbers is 16. If the smaller of these two
numbers is of the larger what is the value of the smaller number?
(A) 18
(B) 24
(C) 30
(D) 33
29. (1 - X)(X - 1) =
(A) –(X –1)2
(B) (X --1)2
(C) 0
(D) X2 –1
(E) 1 –X2
30. If a square is inscribed in a circle of radius r as shown above, then the area of the
square region is
(A) r2/2π
(B) πr2 /2
(C) πr2
(D) 2r2
FOR GENERAL TEST 4 ONLY
Answer K«y and Percentages of Examinees Answering Each Question Correctly
QUANTITATIVE ABILITY
Section 2 Section 5
Number Answer P+ Number Answer P +
1 B 96 1 C 89
2 E 89 2 A 92
3 B 60 3 A 71
4 D 51 4 C 60
5 E 39 5 B 41
6 E 39 6 C 47
7 D 28 7 B 38
8 B 84 8 C 91
9 A 61 9 E 92
10 E 64 10 D 87
11 B 65 11 C 78
12 C 49 12 A 71
13 E 36 13 A 52
14 A 29 14 A 37
15 E 35 15 A 41
16 B 22 16 E 19
17 C 70 17 D 63
18 B 57 18 E 51
19 E 82 19 C 36
20 D 58 20 B 84
21 C 56 21 D 48
22 D 40 22 D 42
23 E 63 23 A 27
24 A 53 24 C 45
25 B 50 25 C 60
26 D 46 26 B 61
27 E 63 27 E 45
28 C 90 28 D 64
28 B 84 29 D 77
30 E 80 30 C 73
31 B 74 31 B 74
32 D 75 32 A 39
33 B 54 33 B 44
34 A 35 34 D 46
35 A 37 35 C 45
36 C 39 36 A 35
37 C 33 37 E 20
38 A 23 38 D 10
QUANTITATIVE ABILITY
Section 2 Section 5
Number Answer P+ Number Answer P +
1 B 93 1 B 84
2 A 87 2 C 87
3 B 82 3 A 82
4 B 85 4 B 85
5 D 77 5 C 84
6 A 71 6 A 80
7 A 74 7 D 77
8 C 69 8 A 65
9 D 62 9 C 64
10 B 66. 10 A 61
11 A 65 11 D 62
12 C 53 12 D 53
13 C 37 13 A 55
14 D 45 14 B 35
15 C 37 15 D 30
16 B 81 16 C 91
17 E 80 17 E 87
18 E 91 18 C 88
19 B 56 19 B 76
20 E 62 20 0 63
21 A 90 21 B 70
22 D 90 22 E 91
23 D 68 23 D 77
24 B 54 24 A 22
25 A 46 25 B 27
26 C 85 28 B 68
27 A 52 27 D 53
28 C 43 28 B 60
29 D 27 29 A 54
30 A 34 30 E 43
ANALYTICAL ABILITY
Section 2 Section 5
Number Answer P+ Number Answer P +
1 D 73 1 D 86
2 B 72 2 A 75
3 D 51 3 B 61
4 E 74 4 A 66
5 B 80 5 E 44
6 C 65 6 E 83
7 A 72 7 B 56
8 C 54 8 C 82
9 E 53 9 C 77
10 D 50 10 D 51
11 C 54 11 D 75
12 D 58 12 B 40
13 A 43 13 A 37
14 D 43 14 E 41
15 E 32 15 D 66
16 A 33 16 B 58
17 B 64 17 C 35
18 B 38 18 D 32
19 A 43 19 A 27
20 E 30 20 A 72
21 C 61 21 B 27
22 C 42 22 C 36
23 D 49 23 C 47
24 A 39 24 B 41
25 E 30 25 E 30
TEST 5
SECTION 1
Time—30 minutes
25 Questions
Directions: Each question or group of questions is based on a passage or set of
conditions. In answering some of the questions, it may be useful to draw a rough
diagram. For each question, select the best answer choice given.
Questions 1-3
Packing labels identify individual packages by means cf a tour-symbol identification
code running left to right. The symbols used arc .the four digits 1,2, 3, and 4 and the four
letters W, X. Y, and Z.
Each code consists of two digits and two letters.
The two digits must be next to each other, and the two letters must be next to each other.
Of the two digits, the one to the left must be less than the one to the right.
The two letters must be different letters.
1. Which of the following could be the third symbol in a code in which the fourth
symbol is 3 ?
(A) W
(B) X
(C) Z
(D) 1
(E) 4
2. Which of the following must be true of any code in which the letter W occurs?
(A) The letter X also occurs in that code.
(B) The letter Y also occurs in that code.
(C) The letter Z also occurs in that code.
(D) The letter W occurs in that code exactly once.
(E) The kite. W occurs in that code-exactly twice.
•
3. If the first symbol in a code is 2, any one of the following, symbols could occur in one
of the remaining three positions EXCEPT the
(A) digit 1
(B) digit3
(C) digit 4
(D) letter Y
(E) letter Z
4. Bats emit sounds and generally use the echoes of these sounds highly efficiently to
detect, locate, and catch their prey. However, it is claimed that the characteristic
efficiency of this process is reduced by moths able to hear the sounds emitted by insecteating
bats.
Which of the following statements, if true, best supports the claim above?
(A) Those moths that cannot hear the sounds emitted by insect-eating bats live longer on
the average than those that can hear such sounds when both kinds of moth are in an
environment continuously free of such bats.
(B) Those moth species that cannot hear the sounds emitted by insect-eating bats are
among the species of insects that are most likely to be caught by such bats.
(C) When a moth changes its speed or direction of flight, there is a change in the sound
pattern generated by the moth's wing movements.
(D) Moth species that can hear the sounds emitted by insect-eating bats are less likely to
be caught by such bats than are moth species that cannot hear these sounds.
(E) Moths that are capable of hearing the sounds emitted by insect-eating bats differ in
their abilities to use evasive action to escape capture by such bats.
5.Mass transit authorities in large cities are struggling with deficits. Riders complain
about delays and breakdowns, cuts in service, and fares higher than they are accustomed
to paying. For all these reasons and because the price of gasoline is still not prohibitive,
the number of passengers using public transportation has fallen, adding to the deficits.
Which .of the following statement about the relationship between the number of riders
using public transportation and the price of gasoline is best supported by the passage
above?
(A) As the price of gasoline rises, the number of riders using public transportation rises.
(B) Even if the price of gasoline rises, the number of riders using public transportation
will continue to decline.
(C) If the price of gasoline rises to a prohibitive level, the number of riders using public
transportation will rise.
(D) The majority of riders using public transportation do not use gasoline; hence,
fluctuations in gasoline prices are unlikely to affect the number of riders using public
transportation.
(E) The price of gasoline is always low enough to make private transportation cheaper
than public transportation; hence, fluctuations in gasoline prices are unlikely to affect the
number of riders using public transportation.
6. The popular notion that teachers are generally apathetic about microcomputer
technology is false, or at least dated: a recently published survey indicates that 86 percent
of the 5,000 teachers who responded to survey questionnaires expressed a high level of
interest in microcomputers.
Which of the following, if true, would be most damaging to the argument above?
(A) No attempt was made in the survey to determine
whether the teachers who received questionnaires had any previous experience with
microcomputers.
(B) Teachers who are interested in microcomputer
technology were more likely than others to complete and return their questionnaires.
(C) Questionnaires were sent to teachers without
regard to their areas of subject-matter expertise or teaching experience.
(D) There have been several important developments in the classroom applications of
micro-computer technology since the survey results were' tabulated.
(E) The survey was conducted as part of a marketing study by a company that
manufactures and sells microcomputers.
Questions 7-11
Four women—G, H, I, and J—and four men—R, S, T. and U—are the eight people to be
seated at a rectangular table. Three of the people are to sit on one side of the table, three
are to sit on the other side of the table one is to sit at the head of the table, and one is to
sit at the foot of the table. The following restrictions on seating Arrangements must be
observed:
Persons of the same sex cannot sit next to each other on the same side of the table.
The person seated at the foot of the table cannot be the same sex as the person seated at
the head of the table.
T cannot be seated on the same side of the table as I.
U cannot be seated on the same side of the table as J.
7. If U is seated at die head of the table and I is seated in the middle seat on one side of
the table, ' which of the following must be true?
(A) J is seated at the foot of the table.
(B) R is seated at the foot of the table.
(C) G is seated on the same side of the table as I.
(D) S is seated on the opposite side of the table from I.
(E) T is seated on the opposite side of the table from I.
8. If J is to be seated at the head of the table, each of the following could be seated at the
foot of the table EXCEPT
(A) H
(B) R
(C) S
(D) T
(E) U
9.If S is seated at the foot of the table. U is seated in an end seat on one side of the table,
and I is seated in an end seat on the other side of the table, where must T be seated?
(A) At the head of the table
(B) In the middle seat on the same side of the table as U
(C) In an end seat on the same side of the table as U
(D) In the middle seat on die same side of the table as I
(E) In an end seat on the same side of the table as I
10. If T is seated at the head of the table, R is seated in the middle seat on one side of the
table, and 1 is seated in the middle seat on the other side of the table, which of the
following can be true?
(A) G is seated at the foot of the table.
(B) H is seated on the same side of the table as I.
(C) J is seated on the same side of the table as I.
(D) S is seated on the same side of the table as-R.
(E) U is seated on the same side of the table as R.
11. If T is seated at the foot of the table, U is seated in the middle seat on one side of the
table, and I is seated in the middle seat on the other side of the table, which of the
following must be seated at the head of the table?
(A)G
(B) H
(C) J
(D) R
(E) S
Questions 12-17
Exactly five persons—.!, K, L, M, and O—have gathered to play a game called Trios In
each round of the game, exactly three of these persons must play The following are all
the rules that affect the order of participation in, and the length of, an individual game
No person can play in three consecutive rounds. No person can sit out two consecutive
rounds. In any game, each of the five persons must play in exactly three rounds.
12. If J, K, and L play in a first round, which of the following could be the trio who play
in that game's second round?
(A) J, K, M
(B) J, K, O
(C) J, L, M
(D) K, L, O
(E) K, M, O
13. If, in an individual game, K., L, and M play in the first round and J, L, and M play in
the third round, the players in the second round must be
(A) J, K, L
(B) J, K, M
(C) J, K, O
(D) K, L, O
(E) K, M, O
14. If, in an individual game, L and O do not play in the first round, which of the
following must be true?
(A) L plays in rounds three and four.
(B) O plays in rounds three and five.
(C) U and O both play in round four.
(D) L and O both play in round five.
(E) M and O both play in round four.
15. If, in an individual game, J, L, and M play in the first round, and K, M, and O play in
the second round, which of the following must play in the fourth round?
(A) J
(B) K
(C) L
(D) M
(E) O
I6. If, in an individual game, J, M, and, O play in the first round, and if M and K play in
the fourth round, which of the following CANNOT have played in the third round?
(A) J
(B) K
(C) L
(D) M
(E) O
17. If, in an individual game, J, K, and M play in the first round and K, M, and O play in
the third round, which of the following CANNOT play in the fourth round and must play
in the fifth round?
(A) J
(B) K
(C) L
(D) M
(E) O
Questions 18-22
A theater ensemble group consisting of two male
actors—Jeff and Kirk—and three female actors— Rena, Sara, and Tanya—plans to give
a performance of a play that has exactly eight roles Roles 1,2, and 3 must be played by
males, roles 4, 5, and 6 must be played by females Roles 7 and 8 can be played by either
males or females Each actor must play at least one role and the number of roles
necessitates that some of the actors will play more than one role The pairs of roles below
are the only pairs that do not require the actors playing the roles to be on stage at the
same time, appearances in these roles are spaced far enough apart to allow time for
costume changes for actors playing more than one role
Roles 1 and 2
Roles 3 and 6
Roles 3 and 7
Roles 4 and 5
Roles 4 and 8
Roles 5 and 8
Rena and Sara cannot play roles that require them to be on stage together at the same
time.
18 Each of the following pairs of roles could be played by the same actor EXCEPT
(A) roles 1and 2
(B) roles 3 and 6
(C) roles3 and 7
(D) roles 4 and 5
(E) roles 5 and 8
19 If Kirk plays role 1, which of/the following must be true7
(A) Jeff plays role 2
(B) Jeff plays role 7
(C) Sara plays role 4
(D) Rena plays role 4
(E) Rena plays role 8
20 Which of the following is an acceptable assignment of roles 4, 5, and 6, respectively7
(A) Rena, Rena, Rena
(B) Rena, Tanya, Rena
(C) Rena, Sara, Tanya
(D) Sara, Tanya, Rena
. (E) Sara, Tanya, Tanya
21 Jeff could play any of the following roles EXCEPT
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 7
(E) 8
22 Which of the following actors CANNOT play more than one role, regardless of the
other role assign ments7
(A) Jeff
(B) Kirk
(C) Rena
(D) Sara
(E) Tanya
23 In March 300 college students turned out in Washington to protest against proposed
cuts in student loan funds Another 350,000 collegians flocked to Florida's sun-drenched
beaches during March for "spring break"" Since the Florida sun-seekers were more
numerous, they were more representative of today's students than those who protested m
Washington, and therefore Congress need not heed the appeals of the protesting students
The argument above makes which of the following assumptions?
(A) The students who vacationed in Florida did not oppose the cutting of student loan
funds by Congress
(B) The students who vacationed in Florida were not in agreement with the opinion of
the majority of United States citizens about the ,proposed cut in loan funds
(C) The students who protested in Washington more seriously concerned about their
education than were the students who vacationed in Florida
(D) The students who neither protested in Washington in March nor vacationed in
Florida HA March are indifferent to governmental policies on education
(E) The best way to influence congressional opinion about a political issue is to
communicate with one's elected representative in Washington
24. Some doomsayers are warning that long-range warming or cooling trends in weather
patterns will drastically reduce grain production. More optimistic reports, however, point
out that, even if such drifts in average temperature do occur, we should expect little
change in grain production because there is little evidence that changes in rainfall patterns
will occur. Moreover, for most crops, climate-induced yield trends will be masked
by both the year-to-year fluctuation of yields and by the enhancement of yields because
of technological factors.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the more optimistic reports mentioned
in the passage are based?
(A) Long-range changes in weather patterns cannot be accurately predicted.
(B) The growing of grain is so highly dependent on technological factors that
improvements in yield are unlikely, regardless of climatic conditions.
(C) Trends in rainfall patterns are more difficult to isolate than are trends in temperature.
(D) Long-range warming or cooling trends are more damaging to grain production if
they are accompanied by changes in rainfall patterns than if they are not.
(E) Long-range cooling trends are potentially more destructive to grain production than
are long-range warming trends.
25. Noting that the number of crimes committed in a • certain city had decreased in
19&2 by 5.2 percent-in comparison with 1981, the police chief of the city said, "We see
here the result of the innovative police program put into effect in7 the city at the
beginning of 1982."
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion drawn by the
police chief?
(A) Several cities that have recently increased spending for police programs experienced
no decrease in crime in 1982, as compared with 1981
(B) The number of crimes committed in the city is estimated, by the same method each
year, , from the number of crimes reported.
(C) The number of crimes committed in the suburban areas surrounding the city rose by
about 5 percent in 1982 over the figure for 1981 and were nearly equal in number to
those in the «ity in 1982.
(D) The number of crimes committed in the city in1982 was 10 percent higher than the
number committed in 1972.
(E) The size of the age-group most likely to commit crimes decreased considerably in
the city in 1982, as against 1981, because of a declining birth rate.
Section 3
Time—30 minutes
30 Questions
Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers.
Figures: Position of points, angles, regions, etc. can be assumed to be in the order
shown; and angle measures can be assumed to be positive.
Lines shown as straight can be assumed to be straight.
Figures can be assumed to lie in a plane unless otherwise indicated.
Figures that accompany questions are intended to provide information useful in
answering the questions. However, unless a note states that a figure is drawn to scale, you
should solve these problems NOT by estimating sizes by sight or by measurement, but by
using your knowledge of mathematics (sec Example 2 below).
Directions: Each of the Questions 1-15 consists of two quantities, one in Column A and
one in Column B. You are to compare the two quantities and choose
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Note: Since there are only four choices, NEVER MARK (E).
Common
Information: In a question, information concerning one or both of the quantities to be
compared is centered above the two columns. A symbol that appears in both columns
represents the same thing in Column A as it does in Column B.
Column A Column B Sample Answers
Example 1: 2 X 6 2 + 6
Examples 2-4 refer to ΔPQR.
Example 2:
(since equal measures cannot
be assumed, even though PN
and NQ appear equal)
Example 3: x y
(since N is between P and Q)
Example 4: w + z 180
(since PQ is a straight line)
A if the quantity in Column A is greater,
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal; '
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Column A Column B
A man left 1/3 of his estate to his widow .and
designated that the remainder be divided
equally among his 4 sons.
1 . The fraction of the estate
designated for each son
1/12
M, N, P, and Q are midpoints of the sides of
the rectangle.
2. The sum of the areas The area of the
un shaded of the shared regions
shaded region MNPQ
Column A Column B
^
5. The altitude of Triangle PQR from Q
6. x y
3. √38,205 200
a, b, and c are negative integers.
4. abc a(b + c)
X > 1.
7. (x + 5)(2x + 3) (x + 3)(2* + 5)
X > 0
X l4
8 x/14 14/x
A if the quantity in Column A is greater;
B if the quantity in Column B is greater;
C if the two quantities are equal;
D if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Column A Column B
The largest circular tabletop that can be cut
from a certain square piece of wood has a
circumference of 1057Π inches.
9. The length of a side 105Π
inches
of the piece of wood before
the tabletop is cut from it
10100
1020 = -----------
10n
10 n : 5
Maria's weekly net salary of $585 is 65
percent of her weekly gross salary.
11. Maria's weekly gross $900
salary
Column A Column B
x - y ≠ 0
13. 3x2-3y2/x-y 3(x-y)
3 x 3 x n = 2 x 2 x p
np ≠ 0
14. n/p 2/3
15. x y
12. The number of differ- The number of
different ent positive divisors
positive divisors of 50
of 12
Directions: Each of the Questions 16-30 has five answer choices. For each or these
questions, select the best of the answer choices given.
16. If 8x - 3y = 24 and y = 0, then x = ?
(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6
(E) 8
17. If the sum of 3, 7, and x is 18, then the average (arithmetic mean) of 3, 7, and x is
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9
(E) 10
18. If n = 3, what is the value of 22n +1 =?
(A) 9
(B) 13
(C) 17
(D) 33
(E) 65
19. In the figure above, x =
(A) 30 (B) 35 (C) 60 (D) 75 (E) 150
20. Three individuals contributed $800 each toward the purchase of a computer. If
they bought the computer on sale for $1,950 plus 10 percent sales tax, how much
money should be refunded to each individual?
(A) $65
(B) $85
(C) $150
(D) $195
(E) $255
21. In 1969 approximately what was the amount of private health expenditures?
(A) $25 billion (B) $30 billion (C) $45 billion (D) $50 billion (E) $70 billion
22. For the years shown, what was the first year in which the amount of public health
expenditures was at least $30 billion?
(A) 1960
(B) 1962
(C) 1964
(D) 1968
(E) 1970
23. In 1976 approximately what was the ratio of the amount of private health
expenditures to the amount of public health expenditures?
(A) 3:1 (B)2:l (C) 3:2 (D)2:3 (E) 1:3
24. .For the year in which public health expenditures were closest to $40 billion, total
health expenditures were approximately what percent of the gross national product?
(A) 10%
(B) 9%
(C) 8%
(D) 7%
(E) 6%
25. Approximately what was the amount of the gross national product in 1968 ?
(A) $600 billion '
(B) $750 billion
(C) $800 billion
(D) $950 billion
(E) It cannot be determined from the information given.
26 If x and y are integers and x > y > 0, how many integers are there between, but not
including, x and y ?
(A) x-y
(B) x + y
(C) x-y-l
(D) x +y -1
(E) x - y + 1
27. For which of the following expressions would the value be less if 350 were replaced
by 347 ?
I 2,500 – 350
II 1/350
1
III ----------------
1+ 1/ 350
(A) None (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and III (E) II and III
28. If the circumference of circle P is 15.714 and the circumference of circle Q is 6.28,
then the diameter of circle P minus the diameter of circle Q is approximately equal to
(A) 1.5
(B) 3.0
(C) 5.5
(D) 9.0
(E) 9.4
29. According to the number line above, which of the following points has a coordinate
most nearly equal to p x r =?
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
30. A rectangular rug covers half of a, rectangular floor that is 9 feet wide and 12 feet
long. If the dimension of the rug are in the same ratio as those of the floor, how many feet
long is the rug?
(A) 6
(B) 21 / 2
(C) 2√7
(D) 6√2
(E) 4√6
SECTION 4 Time—30 minutes
38 Questions
Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been {omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of
words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best'fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
1. The commission criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on
the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be-
------further education.
(A) entitled to (B) striving for (C) deprived of (D) uninterested in (E) participating in
2. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with
extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more -------than a similar
article intended for-------use.
(A) delicately.. vocational
(B) colorfully.. festive
(C) creatively.. religious
(D) subtly.. commercial
(E) lavishly.. everyday
3. Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the------- of
conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its-------before, he acted.
(A) rewards.. chastisement
(B) balm.. eloquence
(C) reproaches.. promptings
(D) ridicule.: allure
(E) qualms.. atonement
4. Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: he------childhood
processes from adult-------.
(A) reconstructed.. memory
(B) condoned.. experience
(C) incorporated.. behavior
(D) released.. monotony
(E) inferred.. anticipation
5. While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers—the incomprehension of
her colleagues— octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to----
---the triumph of her once------- scientific theories.
(A) descry.. innovative
(B) regret. .insignificant
(C) perpetuate.. tentative
(D) enjoy.. authoritative
(E) savor.. heterodox
6. Broadway audiences have become inured to------- and so -—— to be pleased as to
make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production
before them.
(A) sentimentality.. reluctant
(B) condescension ...disinclined
(C) histrionics.. unlikely
(D) cleverness.. eager
(E) mediocrity.. desperate
7. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective
attempt to------- experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
(A), extrapolate (B) transcribe (C) complicate (D) amplify (E) manage
Directions: In each of the following questions, a related of words or phrases is followed
by five lettered pairs words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a
relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
8.CENSUS : POPULAI ION :: (A) itinerary: journeys-(B) inventory: merchandise
(C) roster: audience (D) slate : incumbents (E) manifest: debts
9.INEVITABLE: CHANCE ::
(A) absolute: variability (B) candid : openness
(C) certain : regularity (D) relaxed : diligence (E) sincere: hesitancy
10. DART .-MISSILE:: (A) skiff: boat
(B) planet: star (C) page: volume
(D) finger: thumb (?) car: truck
11. DECIBEL: SOUND :: (A) gallon r water (B) lumen : light (C) band: signal (D)
weight: mineral (E) scale: music
12. STICKLER : APPROXIMATION ::
(A) leader: guidance
(B) connoisseur: anachronism
(C) sluggard: indolence,
(D) purist: adulteration
(E) scientist: theorizing
13. SYNONYMOUS : MEANING ::
(A) interchangeable: function
(B) equivocal: interpretation
(C) .coincidental: cause
(D) ambidextrous : skill
(E) bilingual : language
l'4. INSIPID : INVENTION ::
(A) ironic : gravity (B) realistic : originality
(C) generic : artistry (D) foppish : affection (E) prosaic : imagination
15. STREAM : EDDY :: (A) trend : anomaly
(B) Shove : punch (C) assault: defeat
(D) force • motion (E) illness : symptom
16. PIRATE : TAKE :: (A) burgle : steal ' (B) forge : copy (C) renege : promise •
(D) liberate :'free (E) .retreat: withdraw
Directions:- Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content
After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question Answer all questions
following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage
Mycorrhizal fungi infect more plants than do any other fungi and are necessary for many
plaints to thrive, but they have escaped widespread investigation until recently for two
reasons First the symbiotic association is so well-balanced that the roots of host plants
show no damage even when densely infected Second, the fungi cannot as yet be
cultivated in the absence of a living root Despite these difficulties there has been
important new work that suggests that this symbiotic association car be harnessed to
achieve more economical use of costly superphosphate fertilizer and to permit better
exploitation of cheaper, less soluble rock phosphate Mycorrhizal benefits are not limited
to improved phosphate uptake in host plants In legumes, mycor-rhizal inoculation has
increased nitrogen fixation beyond levels achieved by adding phosphate fertilizer alone
Certain symbiotic associations also increase the host plant's resistance to harmful root
fungi Whether this resistance results from, exclusion of harmful fungi through
competition for sites, from metabolic change involving antibiotic production, or from
increased vigor is undetermined
17 Which of the following most accurately describes the passage9
(A) A description of a replicable experiment
(B) A summary report of new findings
(C) A recommendation for abandoning a difficult area of research
(D) A refutation of an earlier hypothesis
(E) A confirmation of earlier research
19 It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following has been a factor
influencing the extent to which research on mycorrhizal fungi has
progressed?
(A) Lack of funding for such research
(B) Lack of immediate application of such research
(C) Lack of a method for identifying mycorrhizal fungi
(D) Difficulties surrounding laboratory production of specimens for study
(E) Difficulties ensuing from the high cost and scarcity of superphosphate fertilizers
20 The passage suggests which of the following about the increased resistance to
harmful root fungi that some plains infected with mycorrhizal fungi seem to exhibit?
(A) There are at least three hypotheses that might account for the increase
(B) An explanation lies in the fact that mycorrhizal fungi increase more rapidly in
number than harmful root fungi do
(C) The plants that show increased resistance also exhibit improved nitrogen fixation.
(D) Such increases may be independent of mycorrhizal infection
(E) It is unlikely that a satisfactory explanation can be found to account for the increase.
18 The level of information in the passage above is suited to the needs of all of the
following people EXCEPT
(A) a researcher whose job is to identify potentially profitable areas for research and
product development
(B) a state official whose position requires her to alert farmers about possible innovations
in farming
(C) an official of a research foundation who identifies research projects for potential
funding
(D) a biologist attempting to keep up with scientific development n an area outside of
his immediate area specialization
(E) a botanist conducting experiments to determine the relationship between degree of
mycorrhizal infection and expected uptake of phosphate
In the early 1950's, historians who studied pre industrial Europe (which we may define
here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large
numbers, to inves-
(5) tigate more of the pre industrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who
comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops,, and
local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. One difficulty,
(10) however, was that few of the remaining 97 percent recorded their thoughts or had,
them chronicled by contemporaries. Faced with this' situation, many historians based
their investigations on the only records that seemed to exist: birth, marriage, and
(15) death records. As a result, much of the early work on the nonelite was aridly.
statistical in nature; reducing the vast majority of the population to a set of numbers was
hardly more enlightening than ignoring them altogether. Historians still did not
(20) know what these people thought or felt.
One way out of this dilemma was to turn to the records of legal courts, for here the voices
of the nonelite can most often be heard, as witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants. These
documents have
(25) acted as "a point of entry into the mental world of the poor." Historians such as Le
Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illuminated
the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include, but are not confined
(30) to, attitudes toward crime and the law and have revealed how the authorities
administered justice. It has been societies that have had a developed police system and
practiced Roman law, with its written depositions, whose court records have yielded the
(35) most data to historians. In Anglo-Saxon countries hardly any of these benefits
obtain, but it has still been possible to glean information from the study of legal
documents.
The extraction of case histories is not, however,
(40) the only use to which court records may be put. Historians who study pre industrial
Europe have used the records to establish a series of categories of crime and to quantify
indictments that were issued over a given number of years. This use of the
(45) records does yield some information about the nonelite, but this information gives us
little insight into the mental lives of the nonelite. We also know that the number of
indictments in. pre industrial Europe bears little relation to the number of actual
(50) criminal acts, and we strongly suspect that the relationship has varied widely over
time. In addition, aggregate population estimates are very shaky, which makes it difficult
for historians to compare rates of crime per thousand in one decade of the
(55) pre industrial period with rates in another decade. Given these inadequacies, it is
clear why the case history use of court records is to be preferred.
21. The author suggests that, before the early 1950's, most historians who studied pre
industrial Europe did which of the following?
(A) Failed to make distinctions among members of the pre industrial European political
and social elite.
(B) Used investigatory methods that were almost exclusively statistical in nature.
(C) Inaccurately estimated the influence of the preindustrial European political and
social elite.
(D) Confined their work to a narrow range of the preindustnal European population
(E) Tended to rely heavily on birth, marriage, and death records.
22. According to the passage, the case historic extracted by historians have
(A) scarcely illuminated the attitudes of the political and social elite
(B) indicated the manner in which those in power apportioned justice
(C) focused almost entirely on the thoughts and feelings of different social groups toward
crime and the law
(D) been considered the first kind of historical writing that utilized the, records of legal
courts
(E) been based for the most part on the trial testimony of police and other legal
authorities
23. It can be inferred from the passage that much of the early work by historians on the
European nonelite of the preindustrial period might have been more illuminating if these
historians had
(A) used different methods of statistical analysis to investigate the nonelite
(B) been more successful in identifying the attitudes of civil authorities, especially those
who-administered justice, toward the nonelite
(C) been able to draw on more accounts, written by contemporaries of the nonelite, that
described what this nonelite thought
(D) relied more heavily on the personal records left by members of the European
political and social elite who lived during the period in question
(E) been more willing to base their research- m the birth, marriage, and death records of
,he nonelite
24. The author mentions Le Roy Ladurie (line 26) in order to
(A) give an example of a historian who has made one kind of use of court records
(B) cite a historian who has based case histories on the birth, marriage, and death records
of the nonelite
(C) identify the author of the quotation cited in the previous sentence
(D) gain authoritative support for the view that the case history approach is the most
fruitful approach to court records
(E) point out the first historian to realize the value of court records in illuminating the
beliefs and values of the nonelite
25. According to the passage, which of the following is true of indictments for crime in
Europe in the pre-industrial period?
(A) They have, in terms of their numbers, remained relatively constant over time.
(B) They give the historian important information about the mental lives of those
indicted.
(C) They are not a particularly accurate indication of the extent of actual criminal
activity.
(D) Their importance to historians of the nonelite has been generally overestimated.
(E) Their problematic relationship to actual crime has not been acknowledged by most
historians.
26. It can be inferred from the passage that a historian who wished to compare crime
rates per thousand in A European city in one decade of the fifteenth century with crime
rates in another decade of that century would probably be most aided by better information
about which of the following?
(A) The causes of unrest in the city during the two decades
(B) The aggregate mm her of indictments in the city nearest to the city under
investigation during the two decades
(C) The number of people who lived in the city during each of the decades under
investigation
(D) The mental attitudes of criminals in the city, including their feelings about authority,
during each of the decades Under investigation
(E) The possibilities for a member of the city's nonelite to become a member of the
political and social elite during the two decades
27. The passage would be most likely to appear as part of
(A)a book review summarizing the achievements of historians of the European
aristocracy
(B) an essay describing trends in the practice of writing history
(C) a textbook on the application of statistical methods in the social sciences
(D) a report to the historical profession on the work of early-twentieth-century historians
(E) an article urging the adoption of historical methods by the legal profession
Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters, followed by
five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly
opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to
consider all the choices before deciding which one is best.
28. DOMINATE:
(A) have no ability to
(B) have no control over
(C) be irreconcilable
(D) be angry
(E) be undisciplined
29. SIDESTEP:
(A) confront directly
(B) detain temporarily
(C) comprehend accurately
(D) judge hastily
(E) treat fairly
30. FACILITATE: (A) hallow (B) hamper (Q hurdle (D) hide * (E) hold
31. MUNDANE: (A) sufficient (B) superior (Q exotic (D) agile (E) perfect
32. ELASTICITY: (A) lack of spontaneity
(B) lack of tension (C) lack of resilience
(D) symmetry (E) permanence
33: APPRISE: (A) oblige (B) underrate
(C) apply pressure (D) offer encouragement
(E) withhold information
34. SQUALID: (A) florid (B) ex..
(C) fervid (D) abundant (E) pristine
35. MANIPULATIVE: (A) impassioned (B) lethargic (C) inept
(D) guileless (E) unaltered
36 ANTIPATHIES:
A) Pronounced talent
(B) Settled fondness
(C) Concealed passion
(D) Cultivated nostalgia
(E) Sustained interest
37. FLEDGE: (A) seek (B) call (C) mate (D) emit (E) molt
38. DIATRIBE: (A) encomium (B) epitome (C) euphemism. (D) epistle (E)
epigram
SECTION 5.
Time—30 minutes
25 Questions
Directions: Each question or group of questions is based on a passage or set of
conditions. In answering some of the questions, it may be useful to draw a rough
diagram. For each question, select the best answer choice given.
Questions 1-7
Two male singers, P and S; two female singers, R and V; two male comedians, T and W;
and two female comedians, Q and U, are the eight entertainers who are to perform at the
Stuart Theater on a certain night. Each entertainer is to perform alone and only once that
night. The entertainers may perform in any order that conforms to the following
restrictions:
The performances by singers and the performances by comedians must alternate
throughout the evening.
The first performance that evening must be by a female entertainer, and
the second performance ' by a male entertainer.
The final performance must be by a male singer.
4. If U is to perform seventh, which of the following must perform first?
(A) Q
(B) R
(C) S
(D) T
(E) V
5. If P as to perform eighth, which of the following must perform second?
(A) R
(B) S
(C) T
(D) V
(E) W
1. Which of the following could be the last of the entertainers to perform?
(A) R
(B) S
(C) 1
(D) V
(E) W
2. Which of the following could be the first of the entertainers to perform?
(A) P
(B) R
(C) U
(D) V
(E) W
6. If T is to perform third, W must perform
(A) First or fifth- \
(B) Second or fifth
(C) Fourth or seventh
(D) Fifth or seventh,
(E) Sixth or seventh
7. If Q is to perform third, V fourth, and W fifth, which of the following must perform
sixth?
(A) P
(B) R
(C) S
(D) T
(E) U
3. If R is to perform fourth, which of the following must perform sixth?
(A) P
(B) S
(C) U
(D) V
(E) W
A child watching television a procession of sights and sounds that flash from the screen
just long enough for the eyes and ears .to take them in. Unlike the pages of a book, which
can be read as slowly or as quickly as the child wishes, television images appear with a
relentless velocity that stunts rather than enhances the child's powers of imagination.
The view expressed above is based on an assumption. Of-the following, which can best
serve as that assumption?
(A) When allowed to choose a form of entertainment, children will prefer reading to
watching television.
(B) A child's imagination cannot be properly stimulated unless the child has access both
to television and to books.
(C) A child's imagination can develop more fully. When the child is able to control the
pace of its entertainment.
(D) Children should be taught to read as soon as they are able to understand what they
see on television.
(E) A child's reaction to different forms of sensory stimuli cannot be predicted, since
every child is different.
9. Luis has just seen two ravens; therefore, the next bird Luis sees will be a raven.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above?
(A) Ravens tend to move in flocks.
(B) Ravens generally build their nests at a considerable distance from the nests of other
ravens.
(Q Luis is in California, and ravens are occasionally seen in California.
(D) Luis has seen ravens in other places than the place where he is now
10. It is true that increasing demand for a limited number of products drives up the price
of those products. However, if we cut tax rates, then people will retain a higher
percentage of their income and will be encouraged to work harder and produce more.
Therefore, the increase in demand resulting from greater disposable income will not
result in higher prices for the products available.
In the passage above, the author makes which of the following arguments?
(A) Reducing taxes is likely to result in less disposable income!
(B) Reducing taxes is likely to decrease demand.
(C) Reducing taxes can fail to result in greater disposable income. -
(D) Reducing, taxes will probably restrict the availability of certain products.
(E) Reducing taxes will not necessarily lead to increased prices
Questions 11-13
A chemist has exactly four unlabeled bottles containing colorless liquids standing on a
laboratory shelf. The chemist knows that the only six liquids that the bottles could
possibly contain are pure X, pure Y, pure Z, or any mixture of two of these, and that no
two bottles are filled with the same liquid. The only feasible way of testing for the
identity of the liquids is to use strips of a special white reactive paper that turns red, blue,
or yellow, depending on which of certain liquids it is dipped in. The full table of color
changes and of the triggers for those changes is given below:
Red
Pure Y
Y mixed with
Blue:
.
Pure X
Pure Z
X, Y, and Z mixed together
Yellow:
X mixed with Y
X mixed with Z
11. If none of the four liquids turns the reactive paper / yellow, each of the following
must be the contents of one of the bottles EXCEPT . .
(A) pure X
(B) pure Y
(C) pure Z
(D) Y mixed with Z
(E) X, Y, and Z mixed together
12. If the liquid in the first bottle tested turns the reactive paper red, anrf if the liquid in
the second bottle tested turns the-paper yellow, then a mix of some of the liquid from
each of the first two bottles tested will turn the reactive paper
(A) red
(B) yellow
(C) cither red or blue
(D) either red or yellow '
(E) either blue or yellow
13. If the liquid in the first bottle tested turns the reactive paper red and the liquid in the
second bottle tested turns it blue, and if a mix of some of the liquid from each of the first
two bottles tested turns it red, then which of the following must be true?
(A) The first bottle tested contains pure Y.
(B) The first bottle tested contains Y mixed
with Z.
(C) The second bottle tested contains pure X.
(D) The second bottle tested contains pure Z.
(E) The second bottle tested contains Y mixed
with Z.
Questions 14-18
A fabric designer is selecting colors for a striped pattern with a wide stripe, then a
medium-width stripe, then three narrow stripes. Immediately after the narrow stripes, the
pattern repeats, with the same colors as before. '
The colors from among which the designer will choose are as follows.
Light colors: lavender and white
Intermediate colors: red and orange
Dark colors: brown and .green
Adjacent stripes in the fabric must be of different colors from each other. Adjacent stripes
in the fabric must also be of different levels of darkness (light, intermediate, or dark)
from each other, except that the medium-width stripe and the narrow stripe adjacent to it
can be of the same level as each other.
14. Which of the following, beginning with the wide stripe, is an order of colors that the
designer can select?
(A) Lavender, white, red, brown, orange
(B) White, red, orange, brown, green
(C) Red, lavender, white, orange, brown
(D) Orange, green, white, red, orange
(E) Brown, white, brown, white, lavender
15. Which of the following is true if both lavender and white are .used for the pattern?
(A) The two colors must each be used for a narrow stripe.
(B) The two colors must be used, in either order, for the medium-width stripe and the
narrow stripe adjacent to it.
(C) lavender is used for the middle of the three narrow stripes, white must be used
for the medium-width stripe.
(D) If white is used for any of the narrow stripes, lavender must be used for the wide
stripe and can be used for another one of the remaining stripes as well.
(E) If lavender is used for the wide stripe, white must be used for the narrow stripe
adjacent to the medium-width stripe or for the middle of the three narrow stripes.
16. Which of the following, beginning with the wide stripe, is an order of colors that the
designer can select?
(A) Green, white, lavender, brown, orange
(B) Lavender, green, brown, orange, white
(C) Red, orange, green, brown, lavender
(D) Orange, white, green, lavender, red
(E) Brown, lavender, white, orange, green
17. If green is used for the middle of the three narrow stripes and for one other stripe,
and red and orange are the only other colors used, which of the following is true?
(A) The medium-width stripe must be green.
(B) The medium-width stripe can be green, but if it is, the two remaining narrow-stripes
must be the same color as each other.
(C) The wide stripe must be green.
(D) The wide stripe can be green, but if it is, the two remaining narrow stripes must be
the same color as each other.
(E) The wide stripe can be green, but if it is, the two remaining narrow stripes must be
of different ' colors from each other.
18. If at least two of the stripes will be red and at least two others will be white, which of
the following is true?
(A) Lavender cannot be used for the wide stripe.
(B) Brown cannot be used for the medium-width stripe.
(C) Green cannot be used for the narrow stripe adjacent to the medium-width stripe.
(D) Orange can be used fpr the middle of the three narrow stripes.
(E) Lavender can be used for the narrow stripe after which the pattern repeats.
Questions 19-22
F, G, and H are insurance companies, and Q, R, S, and T are private detectives. Each
detective works for at least one of the insurance companies.
Q always works for F and at least one of the other companies.
Some of the time G employs only one of these detectives; the rest of the time it employs
exactly two of them.
F and H each employ exactly two of these detectives all the time.
19. If R works for H only, and if S works for G and H only, T works for /
(A) F only „
(B) G only
(C) H only
(D) both F and G
(E) both F and H
20. If Q and R both work for the same two insurance companies, T must work for
(A) both F and G
(B) both F and H
(C) either F or G but not both
(D) either F or H but not both
21. Whenever only S works for G, which of the following must be true?
(A) R works for either F or G but not both.
(B) T works for either G or H but not both.
(C) Q and R cannot work for the same company
(D) Q and T cannot work for the same company.
(E) R and T cannot work for the same company.
22. Whenever G employs only one detective, which of the following must be true?
I.R works for two insurance companies.
II. T works for G.
III. S works for only one insurance company.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only
(E) II and III only
23. Nursing homes range from three to five stories in height. If a nursing home room is
above the first floor, it has a fire escape.
If the above statements are true, which of the following must also be true?
(A) First-floor rooms in nursing homes do not have fire escapes.
(B) Fire escapes are allowed but not required for first floor rooms in nursing homes.
(C) Some nursing homes have no fire escapes.
(D) Not all nursing home have proper fire escapes.
(E) Second floor rooms in nursing homes have fire escapes.
24. At Midwest University, there is no collusion between the athletic office and this
admissions office. Athletes must be accepted for admission to the university on the basis
of their academic records before they can be offered financial assistance on the basis of
athletic ability. The university thus hopes to avoid the kind of recruiting violations that
have been a problem at other universities.
It can be inferred from the passage above that
A) the admission policy described above is unique to Midwest University
B) some universities offer financial assistance to athletes who would not be admitted to
the university on the. basis of their academic records
C) most student athletes in universities are admitted solely on the basis of athletic ability
D) admissions offices do not modify academic admission requirements for any students
except student athletes '
E) In many universities, athletic offices are often' at odds with admissions offices
25. Our words are meaningless and cannot be distinguished from their opposites, as can
be proved by an example. People think that they know the difference between the
meanings of "bald" and "having hair." Suppose an average person twenty-one years of
age has N hairs on his or her head. We say that that person is not bald but has hair. But
surely one hair less would make no difference, and a person with N — 1 hairs on his or
her head would be said to have hair. Suppose we kept on, with one hair less each time.
The result would be the same. But what would be the difference between someone who
had one hair and someone who had none? We call them both bald. Nowhere can we make
a distinction between "bald" and "having hair."
Which of the following statements best counters the argument above?
(A) The word "bald" can he translated into other languages.
(B) "A word can have more than one meaning.
(C) A word such as "cat" can be applied to several animals that differ in-some respects.
(D) Words can lack precision without being meaningless.
(E) People cannot think clearly without using words.
Verbal Ability
Section – 4
No Ans P +
1 C 93
2 E 75
3 C 63
4 A 66
5 E 65
6 E 51
7 E 15
8 B 85
9 A 80
10 A 54
11 B 51
12 D 52
13 A 37
14 E 30
15 A 27
16 B 26
17 B 83
18 E 35
19 D 85
20 A 57
21 D 61
22 B 39
23 C 66
24 A 59
25 C 73
26 C 50
27 B 50
28 B 93'
29 A 92
30 B 80
31 C 74
32 C 57
33 E 53
34 E 35
35 D 42
36 B 29
37 E 23
38 A 21
QUANTITATIVE ABILITY
Section – 3
No. Answer P +
1 A 85
2 C 82
3 B 85
4 B 78
5 A 75
6 A 75
7 A 69
8 D 59
9 B 62
10 A 54
11 C 58
12 C 49
13 D 42
14 B 42
15 D 26
16 A 94
17 A 84
18 E 81
19 D 76
20 B 7
21 C
22 E
23 C
24 B 82
25 D 38
26 C 58
27 C 45
28 B 50
29 C 50
30 D 26
AMALYTICAL ABILITY
Section 1 Section 5
No. Answer P + Number Answer P +
1 D 78 1 B 93
2 D 86 2 C 71
3 A 90 3 D 57
4 D 70 4 A 69
5 C 68 5 B 76
6 B 60 6 D 66
7 E 66 7 B 59
8 A 86 8 C 87
9 C 67 9 A 86
10 A 81 10 E 77
11 C 69 11 E 44
12 E 56 12 E 51
13 C 82 13 D 42
14 D 24 14 C 58
15 D 48 15 E 21
16 B 32 16 A 41
17 E 36 17 C 36
18 B 54 18 A 23
19 B 38 19 A 30
20 C 42 20 E 39
21 E 22 21 E 16
22 E 18 22 C 32
23 A 49 23 E 61
24 D 39 24 B 64
25 E 26 25 D 68