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Your Total Score is: 307

Your Verbal Score is: 149

Your Quantitative Score is: 158

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Section 1
1. In feudal Japan, it was not uncommon for villagers to hire an accomplished warrior to defend them from groups of bandits that roamed the countryside _______	the possessions of families in rural communities.

Your Answer: vandalizing
Correct Answer: despoiling
2. The detective _______	the crime scene, examining every inch of the apartment in detail.

Your Answer: scrutinized
3. Use of an augur has steadily declined as scientific advancement has made such use less necessary. Therefore, the postulate that science will eventually (i) _______	the use of augurs is (ii) _______.

Your Answer (i): supplant
Your Answer (ii): plausible
4. Simone de Beauvoir’s _______	picture of immortality: the protagonist suffers the death of his wife, and (ii) _______he vows to keep her memory, some hundred years later he forgets what she even looked like.

Your Answer (i): bleak
Your Answer (ii): although
5. Although the professor was well-respected for his vast array of knowledge, he would often (i) _______	during his (ii) _______lectures, unnecessarily extending class.

Your Answer (i): rhapsodize
Your Answer (ii): verbose
6. His performance since taking over the company can only be described as (i) _______	. While he did assume leadership under difficult conditions after the (ii) _______of the affable founder, there is no excuse for continuously (iii) _______subordinates who are also adjusting to new roles.

Your Answer 1: reprehensible
Your Answer 2: abdication
Your Answer 3: abasing
7. Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the author's explanation for the increase in the number of fatal alligator attacks?

Your Answer: An increase in fatal alligator attacks tends to make people more cautious around lakes, ponds, swamps and canals.
Correct Answer: Two years ago, a government initiative to reduce the alligator population size by destroying alligator eggs ended.
8. In the final sentence of paragraph two, the phrase “a substantial achievement” suggests that

Your Answer: the distance from the earth to the center of the galaxy can limit how accurately scientists can measure certain astronomical distances
9. Which of the following best reflects the primary purpose of the passage?

Your Answer: to raise a question and provide evidence that addresses the question
10. In paragraph four, the phrase “previously assumed distance” implies that

Your Answer: a best fit calculation is more accurate than the type of calculation that resulted in the previous figure
Correct Answer: the new figure for the distance from the sun to the center of the galaxy is likely to be more accurate than the previous figure
11. According to the passage, which of the following reflects Reid’s research with respect to the Milky Way’s mass?

Your Answer: The Milky Way’s mass is approximately half the size that it was earlier estimated to be.
Correct Answer: The Milky Way’s mass is approximately 150% of the previously assumed mass.
12. Although usually__________ , Fred seemed to pick the worst occasions to run behind schedule.

Your Answer:
prompt
punctual
Correct Answer:
prompt
punctual
13. Due to the strictly authoritarian culture of Mike’s company, new hires with__________ personalities often quit within the first few weeks.

Your Answer:
refractory
indolent
Correct Answer:
refractory
autonomous
14. His tendency toward egoism was reinforced by his decision to only associate with those who would__________ him.

Your Answer:
coddle
aggrandize
Correct Answer:
aggrandize
lionize
15. The dictator won most of his followers through__________ since little hard evidence lay on his side.

Your Answer:
browbeating
demagoguery
Correct Answer:
demagoguery
sophistry
Your Answer: These are positive measures, but they have been tried before, to little avail.
17. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

Your Answer: The inclusion of women in Ghost Dance roles previously reserved for men signaled a growing acceptance of women in a male-dominated society.
Correct Answer: A rational movement is one that does not depend a great deal on the paranormal.
18. With which of the following statements regarding Ralph Linton’s work would the author most likely agree?

Your Answer: Linton did not recognize that some elements of the ritual were quite new.
Correct Answer: Linton’s classification of Native American movements fails to incorporate all elements of the Ghost Dance ritual.
19. According to the passage, all of the following are true EXCEPT:

Your Answer: Linton believed that the Ghost Dance reflected a reliance upon a magical savior to recreate an ancestral living situation.
20. In the argument presented, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?

Your Answer: The first is an explanation that the argument opposes; the second is an objection raised against the alternative explanation advocated by the argument.
Correct Answer: The first is an explanation that the argument challenges; the second is a finding on which that challenge is based.
Section 2
1. Line M is described by the equation y = 3x + 10
Line N is described by the equation 2y = 5x - 6
Line P has a y axis intercept of 6, and the point (6,4) lies on line p.

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
2.

Your Answer: The two quantities are equal.
3. y > 1

Your Answer: Quantity B is greater.
4.

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
5. a < 60

Your Answer: Quantity B is greater.
6.

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
Correct Answer: Quantity B is greater.
7.

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
8. x3 < x

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
9. If x – y = 4, then x2 – 2xy + y2 =

Your Answer: 16
10. 3/4 of the attendees at a banquet are men. If 1/2 of the men and 2/5 of the women chose chicken as their entrée, what fraction of all attendees at the banquet chose chicken as their entrée?

Your Answer: .475
11. What is the value of 8332216–4?

Your Answer: 8
12. If the area of equilateral triangle ABC is 4 times that of equilateral triangle PQR, then each side of ABC is how many times the corresponding side of PQR?

Your Answer: 2
13. If the price of a certain stock increased by 1/5 during the first month and then decreased by 1/4 during the second month, what was the ratio of the stock price at the end of the two months to the original price?

Your Answer: 9:10
14. Approximately what percentage of the flowering plants sold by Nursery A grow to be more than 2 feet (24 inches) in height?

Your Answer: 40%
15. If Plant Nursery A wanted to at least 30% of their flowering plants to be perennials, by what number would the number of perennials sold have to be increased?

Your Answer: 78
Correct Answer: 32
16. If the average annual costs $5.50 and the average perennial costs $4.75, how much more would it cost to purchase one annual in every available flower color than it would cost to purchase one perennial in every available flower color?

Your Answer: $8.25
Correct Answer: $13.00
17. If x + y = 17 and x – y = 5, what is the value of xy?

Your Answer: 66
18. If m and n are integers such that m2 - n2 is odd, then which of the following MUST also be odd?

Indicate all that apply.

Your Answer:
m + n
Correct Answer:
m + n
m2 + mn + n2
m3 + n3
19. The average of three equally spaced numbers is 12. If the largest number equals twice the smallest, what is the value of the smallest number?

Your Answer: 8
20. A collector purchased a work of art for x% less than the appraised value. He then sold the work to a private buyer for a profit of y%. Which of the following represents the price the private buyer paid, as a fraction of the appraised value?

Your Answer:
Section 3
1. Although mine explosions get the most media coverage, mine collapses are far more _______	, accounting for about a quarter of all mining deaths since 1983.

Your Answer: grave
2. While the teacher feigns indifference, her great love of her students is betrayed by her _______	.

Your Answer: didacticism
Correct Answer: solicitude
3. While the deterioration of public services in late-era Rome demonstrated that the society was (i) _______	, some of the culture’s greatest works of art were (ii) _______.

Your Answer (i): decadent
Your Answer (ii): imminent
4. The enjoyment of private goods generally (i) _______	others from doing so as well, a fact that creates a natural rivalry for such goods. On the other hand, one person’s enjoyment of a public good generally does not preclude enjoyment by another. Therefore, public goods fundamentally involve (ii) _______The problem involves how to fund such public goods, for their very nature creates an incentive to (iii) _______them without paying.

Your Answer 1: exalts
Correct Answer 1: excludes
Your Answer 2: cooperation
Your Answer 3: benefit from
5. Dr. Kim’s innovative work with epithelial cell lines (i) _______	the field of immunology; prior to her (ii) _______discoveries, no one had ever isolated those pivotal genes, much less generated a functional mouse model.

Your Answer (i): revolutionized
Your Answer (ii): groundbreaking
6. Dictionaries today are (i) _______	in capturing the meaning of many descriptors because use of common adjectives varies by personal experience. While someone accustomed to life in the snow-swept regions of Canada may describe a certain amount of snowfall as “light,” someone from the arid southern regions of Arizona might describe (ii) _______volume of precipitation as “very heavy.” Such regional discrepancies are not (iii) _______in current standard definitions.

Your Answer 1: perfunctory
Correct Answer 1: inadequate
Your Answer 2: the same
Your Answer 3: logged
7. Which of the following provides the best example of the scatting technique used in jazz performance?

Your Answer: A female vocalist attempting to vocalize the tone and melodic line just played by a trumpet
8. The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

Your Answer: Because the essence of America lies in the plurality of its roots, American football should not be called an American sport.
Correct Answer: What makes American football American is that it was derived from the convergence of English soccer and rugby.
9. Which of the following elements of jazz most likely has its origin in West African musical traditions?

Your Answer: an impromptu call-and-response between two instruments in the ensemble
Your Answer: That is not to say that epiphytes don't ever damage their host, but the damage is more indirect.
11. What is the main idea of this passage?

Your Answer: To differentiate between epiphytes and hemiepiphytes
Correct Answer: To describe a certain type of organism as well as organisms that share certain characteristics with that organism
12. Which of the following is an example of a true epiphyte?

Your Answer: An algae that grows on a waterlily and survives by means of sunlight and water, and which sometimes accidentally kills the waterlily by starving it of light
13. Rather than attempting to attenuate the vitriolic tone of the debate, the feckless moderator amplified the hostility; all of his questions were provocations clearly aimed at__________ the candidates on the most contentious issues.

Your Answer:
entrapping
coddling
Correct Answer:
piquing
drawing out
14. The ubiquitous nature of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR), which was originally thought to be error in detection instrumentation, lends credence to modern theories about the origin of the universe; such theories, many say, should be__________ in the minds of the scientific laity.

Your Answer:
less dubitable
more axiomatic
Correct Answer:
less dubitable
more axiomatic
15. Smith, hailed as consequential by his immediate followers yet__________ by the greater body of important critics in his field, finished his career without any notable acclaim.

Your Answer:
snubbed
slighted
Correct Answer:
snubbed
slighted
16. He made a promise to himself never to__________ her grave and kept this promise even after he learned of how misguided his beliefs of her maliciousness had been.

Your Answer:
propound
venerate
Correct Answer:
hallow
venerate
17. Which of the following books would best be defended by an argument similar to that Nan Talese made defending A Million Little Pieces?

Your Answer: A novel written by a former wrestler about wrestling that attempted to portray the world of wrestling as realistically as possible
Correct Answer: A history of global climate change that falsified some of the statistics but still made compelling and honest arguments about ecological issues
18. The author’s perspective in this passage would best be described as

Your Answer: neutral
Correct Answer: skeptical
Your Answer: Oprah Winfrey, who promoted the book on her show, later took Frey to task for these details. Nan Talese, his publisher, argued that the overall redemptive narrative of the book was true, and the details were unimportant.
Correct Answer: They can always claim that their reconstructions were written exactly as they remember them.
Section 4
1.

Your Answer: The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Correct Answer: Quantity A is greater.
2. ABCD is a rectangle in the xy-coordinate plane. The sides of the rectangle are not parallel to the coordinate axes.

Your Answer: The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
3. x is 70% of y.
z is 40% of y.

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
4.

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
5. Angle ABC = 60°

Your Answer: The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
6. x and y are both positive integers

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
Correct Answer: Quantity B is greater.
7.

Your Answer: 16
8. Figure not drawn to scale

Your Answer: 640π - 1280
9. If  and  , then ab =

Your Answer: 1
10. If the average of 5 distinct positive integers is 22, what is the largest that any of them could be?

Your Answer: 100
11. What is the largest integer m such that 5–m > 0.002 ?

Your Answer: 3
12. If 2x + y > 7 and y – x < –8, then which of the following must be true?

Your Answer: x > 5
13. Approximately what percentage of total energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 1994 in Country A was due to transportation?

Your Answer: 31%
14. Joe has more than 4 and fewer than 8 classic baseball cards. He wants to auction off two of them for charity. Which of the following could represent the total number of ways to select the two cards to auction, depending on the number of cards Joe has? Indicate all that apply.

Your Answer:
6
Correct Answer:
10
15
21
15. How many odd multiples of 7 are there between 100 and 1,000?

Your Answer:
Correct Answer: 64
16. s2 + t2 < 1 - 2st

Your Answer: Quantity A is greater.
Your Verbal Score is: 149

Your Quantitative Score is: 158