ASVAB ASVAB-SECTION-8 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

ASVAB ASVAB-SECTION-8 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 151:

  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of Alaska to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the area affected by a severe storm on August 27, 2015. The President's action makes federal funding available to state, tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by a severe storm in the North Slope Borough.

  Based on the above passage, which of these statements is true?

  A. States may not receive this aid.
  B. Aid recipients do not have to pay anything to receive funds.
  C. The funding for this aid will come from the states.
  D. A Native American tribal council may receive this aid.
  D. A Native American tribal council may receive this aid.

• Question 152:

  When is a book unreadable? Well, when nobody knows the language in which it is written, this might be the case. In 1912, the Voynich Manuscript was found at a library in Rome. Among the 240 pages were pictures, accompanied by text written in an unknown language. Efforts by the most noted language experts failed and some people wrote off the 500-year-old manuscript as a hoax. As our methods of language analysis have improved, however, it has been determined that the mystery language does indeed have a working language pattern and structure. Various experts are now claiming to be able to decode a few words within this mysterious text.

  From the above passage, the reader can infer that the Voynich Manuscript is believed to have originated around __________.

  A. 1812
  B. 1912
  C. 1412
  D. 500
  C. 1412

• Question 153:

  The Panama Canal is a ship canal that cuts through the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Although several foreign companies tried to build the canal throughout the 19th century, none were successful. After the

  A. S. helped Panama revolt against Columbia, the U.S. was given rights to the land the canal occupied. The U.S. government finished the canal in 1914. According to this passage, ___________.
  B. Panama and Columbia fought a war over the Panama Canal
  C. the U.S. was given rights to the canal land
  D. foreign companies built the canal before the U.S. stepped in
  E. Panama built the canal in 1914
  B. Panama and Columbia fought a war over the Panama Canal

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  The passage states that Panama revolted against Columbia, not that they fought over the canal, so Choice "Panama and Columbia fought a war over the Panama Canal" is incorrect. The passage states that the foreign companies were

  unsuccessful in building the canal, so Choice "foreign companies built the canal before the U.S. stepped in" is incorrect.

  The United States, not Panama, built the canal, so Choice "Panama built the canal in 1914" is wrong.

• Question 154:

  After a series of well-publicized failures by various inventors, Orville and Wilbur Wright succeeded in flying and controlling a heavier than-air craft on December 17, 1903. The War Department, stung by its investment in a failed effort by Samuel Langley and compounded by the Wright's own secretiveness, initially rejected the brothers' overtures toward the government to buy the aircraft. Prevailing sentiments held that the immediate future still belonged to the balloon. In August 1908, the two brothers delivered the first Army aircraft to the U.S. Government. That the U.S. government managed to purchase an airplane was a minor miracle. For more than four years after the Wright brothers' successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the government refused to accept the fact that man had flown in a heavier than air machine.

  Which of the following statements is not supported by the above passage?

  A. The U.S. Government felt that balloons were more practical than airplanes.
  B. The Wright Brother's own secretiveness contributed to their problems in getting the government interested in their aircraft.
  C. The historic flight took place on the East Coast.
  D. It took more than six years for the Wright Brothers to interest the U.S. Government in their airplane.
  D. It took more than six years for the Wright Brothers to interest the U.S. Government in their airplane.

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  According to the passage it took over four years for the Government to believe that anyone had flown a heavier-than-air craft. The historic flight was in December 1903, and the Wright Brothers delivered the first aircraft to the government in

  August 1908, 41/2 years later.

  All of the other statements are supported by the passage.

• Question 155:

  In 2013, a gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest non volcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered. The landslide ?which moved at an average of almost 70 mph and reached estimated speeds of at least 100 mph ?left a deposit so large i"t;would cover New York's Central Park with about 20 meters (66 feet) of debris," the researchers report in the January 2014 cover study in the Geological Society of America magazine GSA Today. While earthquakes regularly trigger landslides, the gigantic landslide the night of April 10, 2013, is the first known to have triggered quakes.

  From the above passage, the reader can conclude that __________.

  A. the Utah copper mine landslide was the largest ever recorded in the world
  B. the 2013 earthquakes were triggered by a volcano
  C. the landslide was a slow-moving one
  D. scientists would be surprised if another landslide created earthquakes
  D. scientists would be surprised if another landslide created earthquakes