Test Prep CBEST-SECTION-2 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Test Prep CBEST-SECTION-2 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  On the basis of above table please answer the following question What percentage of the Baidya caste men are employed in the legal profession?

  

  A. 12%
  B. 0.3%
  C. 6%
  D. 3%
  E. 1.2%
  D. 3%

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  Explanation/Reference:

• Question 32:

  (1)

  Produced in 1959, Lorraine Hansberrys play, A Raisin in the Sun, was a quietly revolutionary work that depicted African-American life in a fresh, new, and realistic way. The play made her the youngest American, the first African-American,

  and the fifth woman to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best

  Play of the Year. In 1961, it was produced as a film starring Sydney Poitier and has since become a classic, providing inspiration for an entire generation of

  African-American writers.

  (2)

  Hansberry was not only an artist but also a political activist and the daughter of activists. Born in Chicago in 1930, she was a member of a prominent family devoted to civil rights.Her father was a successful real-estate broker, who won an

  anti-segregation case before the Illinois Supreme Court in the mid-1930s, and her uncle was a Harvard professor. In her home, Hansberry was privileged to meet many influential cultural and intellectual leaders. Among them were artists and

  activists such as Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Langston Hughes.

  (3)

  The success of A Raisin in the Sun helped gain an audience for her passionate views on social justice. It mirrors one of Hansberrys central artistic efforts, that of freeing many people from the smothering effects of stereotyping by depicting

  the wide array of personality types and aspirations that exist within one Southside

  Chicago family. A Raisin in the Sun was followed by another play, produced in 1964, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window. This play is about an intellectual in

  Greenwich Village, New York City, a man who is open-minded and generous of spirit who, as Hansberry wrote, "cares about it all. It takes too much energy not to care."

  (4)

  Lorraine Hansberry died on the final day of the plays run on Broadway. Her early death, at the age of 34, was unfortunate, as it cut short a brilliant and promising career, one that, even in its short span, changed the face of American

  theater. After her death, however, her influence continued to be felt. A dramatic adaptation of her autobiography, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, consisted of vignettes based on Hansberrys plays, poems, and other writings. It was produced

  Off-Broadway in 1969 and appeared in book form the following year.Her play, Les Blancs, a drama set in Africa, was produced in 1970; and A Raisin in the Sun was adapted as a musical, Raisin, and won a Tony award in 1973.

  (5)

  Even after her death, her dramatic works have helped gain an audience for her essays and speeches on wide-ranging topics, from world peace to the evils of the mistreatment of minorities, no matter what their race, and especially for her

  works on the civil-rights struggle and on the effort by Africans to be free of colonial rule. She was a woman,much like the characters in her best-known play, who was determined to be free of racial, cultural, or genderbased constraints.

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question.

  According to the passage, which of the following dramatic works was based most directly on Hansberrys life?

  A. A Raisin in the Sun
  B. Les Blancs
  C. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
  D. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
  E. The musical Raisin
  D. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

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  Explanation/Reference:

  See paragraph 4, which describes To Be Young, Gifted, and Black as a dramatic adaptation of an autobiography. Choices a and e are wrong because there is no support for the idea that Raisin is Hansberrys family. Les Blancs is set in Africa, which rules out choice b. The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window is about a man, which rules out choice c.

• Question 33:

  The Sami are an indigenous people living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russias Kola peninsula. Originally, the Sami religion was animistic; that is, for them, nature and natural objects had a conscious life, a spirit.

  One was expected to move quietly in the wilderness and avoid making a disturbance out of courtesy to these spirits. Ghengis Khan is said to have declared that the Sami were one people he would never try to fight again. Since the

  Sami were not warriors and did not believe in war, they simply disappeared in times of conflict. They were known as "peaceful retreaters."

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question

  Based on the tone of the passage, which of the following words best describes the authors attitude toward the Sami people?

  A. admiring
  B. pitying
  C. contemptuous
  D. patronizing
  E. perplexed
  A. admiring

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  Explanation/Reference:

  To depict the Sami, the author uses words that point to their gentleness, which is an admirable quality: They move quietly, display courtesy to the spirits of the wilderness, and were known as peaceful retreaters. There is nothing pitying, contemptuous, or patronizing in the language, and nothing in the passage indicates that the author is perplexedthe description of the Sami is clear and to the point.

• Question 34:

  Off-site disposal of regulated medical wastes remains a viable option for smaller hospitals (those with less than 150 beds). However, some preliminary on-site processing, such as compaction or hydropulping, may be necessary prior to sending the wastes off-site. Compaction reduces the total volume of solid wastes, often reducing transportation and disposal costs, but does not change the hazardous characteristics of the waste. However, compaction may not be economical if transportation and disposal costs are based on weight rather than volume. Hydropulping involves grinding the waste in the presence of an oxidizing fluid, such as hypochlorite solution. One advantage of hydropulping is that waste can be rendered innocuous and reduced in size within the same system. Disadvantages are the added operating burden, difficulty of controlling fugitive emission, and the difficulty of conducting microbiological tests to determine whether all organic matters and infectious organisms from the waste have been destroyed. On-site disposal is a feasible alternative for hospitals generating two tons per day or more total of solid waste. Common treatment techniques include steam sterilization and incineration. Although other options are available, incineration is currently the preferred method for on-site treatment of hospital waste. A properly designed, maintained, and operated incinerator achieves a relatively high level of organism destruction. Incineration reduces the weight and volume of the waste as much as 95 percent and is especially appropriate for pathological wastes. On the basis of above passage please answer the following question According to the information in the passage, which of the following is one criterion used to determine whether waste will be disposed of onsite or off-site?

  A. number of patients the hospital serves
  B. amount of pathogens in the waste
  C. whether organisms can be properly destroyed
  D. whether or not the waste can be reduced
  E. whether or not the waste is regulated
  A. number of patients the hospital serves

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The first sentence states that off-site disposal is appropriate for hospitals with less than 150 beds, which implies fewer patients. Choices b, c, and d are mentioned with regard to both off-site and on-site disposal. The first sentence of the passage indicates that all the waste discussed in the passage is regulated (choice e).

• Question 35:

  Freedom of Expression, 217290 Text of the First Amendment, 217 Suppression of Message Content, 217272

  Cohen v. California, 219220 Marketplace of Ideas, 221225 Abrams v. United States, 223 Unprotected Categories, 225259 Chaplin v. New Hampshire, 226 Obscenity, 232239 Miller v. California, 233235

  Advocating (Imminent) Illegal Behavior, 239242 Schenck v. Ohio, 240 Defamation, 242246

  New York Times v. Sullivan, 243245 Fighting Words, 247252 -Feiner v. New York, 249

  Mere rationality analysis, 252260 Brandenburg v. Ohio, 256259 Outside the Unprotected Categories, 260272

  Regulations Presumed Unconstitutional, 260263 Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego, 261263 Governments Interest, 264272

  Chicago Police Department v.Mosley, 266267 Significance, 267 -Widmar v. Vincent, 268269 Narrowly Drawn, 270272 Boos v. Barry, 270271

  Incidental Interference with Expression, 273290

  Time, Place, and Manner, 274277 Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 275276 Forum, 278283 Hague v. CIO, 281283 Public, 279 Not Public, 280 Governments Interest, 283290 Schneider v. State, 284286 Significance, 286287 Narrowly Drawn, 287289 Available Alternatives, 289290

  On the basis of above index please answer the following question

  Which of the following best describes the organizational pattern used in the section of the book dealing with suppression of message content?

  A. by the types of publications involved
  B. by the courts that heard the cases
  C. by the dates of the court decisions
  D. by the forum in which the speech took place
  E. by the category of the content of the speech
  E. by the category of the content of the speech

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Although this information is about expression, it is not organized by the types of publications involved, choice a; and although the index contains court cases, it does not indicate which courts heard the cases choice b or the dates of the decisions choice c. Choice d, the forum in which the speech took place, is an entry in the index, but does not impact its organization.

• Question 36:

  Businesses today routinely keep track of large amounts of both financial and non-financial information. Sales departments keep track of current and potential customers; marketing departments keep track of product details and regional demographics; accounting departments keep track of financial data and issue reports. To be useful, all this data must be organized into a meaningful and useful system. Such a system is called a management information system, abbreviated MIS. The financial hub of the MIS is accounting. Accounting is the information system that records, analyzes, and reports economic transactions, enabling decision-makers to make informed choices when allocating scarce economic resources. It is a tool that enables the user, whether a business entity or an individual, to make wiser, more informed economic choices. It is an aid to planning, controlling, and evaluating a broad range of activities. A financial accounting system is intended for use by both the management of an organization and those outside the organization. Because it is important that financial accounting reports be interpreted correctly, financial accounting is subject to a set of ___________ guidelines called "generally accepted accounting principles" (GAAP). On the basis of above passage please answer the following question. This passage is most likely taken from

  A. a newspaper column.
  B. an essay about modern business.
  C. a legal brief.
  D. a business textbook.
  E. a business machine catalog.
  D. a business textbook.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The passage contains objective information about accounting such as one might find in a textbook. There is nothing new or newsworthy in it (choice a). The passage does not contain the significant amount of personal opinion one would expect to find in an essay (choice b). It does not deal with matters that might involve litigation (choice c). It is not brief enough for a business machine catalog and does not contain language suitable to advertising (choice e).

• Question 37:

  In Ralph Waldo Emersons view, although individual consciousness will eventually be lost, every living thing is part of the blessed Unity, part of the transcendent "over-soul" which is the universe.And so, in the main body of his philosophy, Emerson accepts the indifference of Nature to the individual life, and does not struggle against it. His acceptance of Nature as tending toward overall unity and good in spite of her indifference to the individual is curiously and ironically akin to the Puritan acceptance of the doctrine of Divine Election. In his "Personal Narrative" Jonathan Edwards writes that he finally has "a delightful conviction" of the doctrine of God's sovereignty, of God's choosing according to His divine and arbitrary will, "whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased . . . ."He writes that the doctrine had formerly seemed ___________ to him; however, it had finally come to seem "exceedingly pleasant, bright, and sweet." In "Fate," Emerson writes that "Nature will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust," but that "the central intention of Nature [is] harmony and joy. Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity. . . ." On the basis of above passage please answer the following question In the context of the passage, which of the following words would best fit in the blank?

  A. loving
  B. just
  C. horrible
  D. imperious
  E. satisfying
  C. horrible

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The word horrible most definitely contrasts to the words exceedingly pleasant, bright, and sweet, and the words formerly and however indicate that the sentence is describing a contrast. The other choices do not necessarily point to a contrast..

• Question 38:

  Emperor Charlemagne of the Franks was crowned in 800 A.D. The Frankish Empire at that time extended over what is now Germany, Italy, and France.

  Charlemagne died in 814, but his brief reign marked the dawn of a distinctly European culture. The artists and thinkers that helped create this European civilization drew on the ancient texts of the Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Roman, Hebrew,

  and Christian worlds. __________________________________________. These mores in turn laid the groundwork for the laws, customs, and even attitudes of todays Europeans.

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question

  Which of the following is the best meaning of the word "culture" as it is used in the passage?

  A. the fashionable class
  B. a community of inter-related individuals
  C. a partnership
  D. a group of loosely associated outsiders
  E. an organized group with a common goal
  A. the fashionable class
  B. a community of inter-related individuals
  E. an organized group with a common goal

• Question 39:

  Ever since human beings began their conscious sojourn on this planet, they have puzzled over the riddle of evil and debated its source. Two concepts have predominated in the debate. The first of these holds that evil is an active force, a force of darkness as substantial and powerful as that of light. In terms of the individual human being, this force might be seen as the "Shadow" side of the personality, the feared side that the individual may deny but that is still a real and integral part of her or him. The second of the two concepts holds that evil is essentially ___________, the absence of good, that darkness is not a thing in itself but rather the absence of light. In terms of the individual human being, this doctrine says that evil arises from a lack, a deprivation, from what John A. Sanford calls "a mutilation of the soul." On the basis of above passage please answer the following question. Which of the following, according to the passage, does an individual sometimes use to deal with the "Shadow" side of his or her personality?

  A. scorn
  B. love
  C. acceptance
  D. denial
  E. projection
  D. denial

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The fourth sentence states that the "Shadow" side of the personality is something the individual may deny. The other choices are not in the passage.

• Question 40:

  Heat reactions usually occur when large amounts of water and/or salt are lost through excessive sweating following strenuous exercise. When the body becomes overheated and cannot eliminate this excess heat, heat exhaustion and heat

  stroke are possible. Heat exhaustion is generally characterized by clammy skin, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, profuse perspiration, and sometimes fainting, resulting from an inadequate intake of water and the loss of fluids. First aid treatment for

  this condition includes having the victim lie down, raising the feet 812 inches, applying cool, wet cloths to the skin, and giving the victim sips of salt water (1 teaspoon per glass, half a glass every 15 minutes), over the period of an hour. Heat

  stroke is much more serious; it is an immediately life-threatening situation.

  The characteristics of heat stroke are a high body temperature (which may reach 106F or more); a rapid pulse; hot, dry skin; and a blocked sweating mechanism.

  Victims of this condition may be unconscious, and first aid measures should be directed at cooling the body quickly. The victim should be placed in a tub of cold water or repeatedly sponged with cool water until his or her temperature is

  lowered sufficiently. Fans or air conditioners will also help with the cooling process.

  Care should be taken, however, not to overchill the victim once the temperature is below 102F.

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question.

  On the basis of the information in the passage, symptoms such as nausea and dizziness in a heat exhaustion victim indicate that the person most likely needs to

  A. be immediately taken to a hospital.
  B. be immersed in a tub of water.
  C. be given more salt water.
  D. sweat more.
  E. go to an air-conditioned place.
  C. be given more salt water.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The second paragraph states that for the symptoms of heat exhaustion which include nausea and dizziness first aid treatment includes giving the victim sips of salt water. The other choices relate to heat stroke.