GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 121:

  The poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African Americans of the southern United States. Although Dunbar's works were both popular with readers and acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the poet James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the 1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of Dunbar's works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.

  Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning scholars' use of mythic, psychological, and historical considerations in evaluating Dunbar's works?

  A. Such use disputes the claim that Dunbar's work failed to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans.
  B. Such use challenges the claim that dialect poetry is well suited to producing effects of pathos and humor.
  C. Such use supports the claim that Dunbar's poetry was aesthetically more limited when written in dialect.
  D. Such use suggests that the initial reception accorded Dunbar's poetry may have been too positive.
  E. Such use suggests that earlier twentieth-century evaluations of Dunbar's poetry may have been too negative.
  E. Such use suggests that earlier twentieth-century evaluations of Dunbar's poetry may have been too negative.

• Question 122:

  What accounts for the low-lying. Hat surface of Mars's north? On Earth's surface, higher- and lower-lying areas have different types of crust: one. thin and dense, is pulled toward Earth's center more strongly by gravity, and the planet's water naturally comes to sit over it. creating oceans. The processes that generate this oceanic crust drive plate tectonics.

  Is Mars's north similarly characterized by a sort of crust different from other areas of the planet? Some researchers do see signs of tectonic activity surrounding the northern basin that suggest that it was created through the formation of new crust, like ocean basins on Earth. However. McGill points to northern bedrock structures that predate the features said to mark the start of the tectonic process. McGill instead believes that through some novel mechanism the ancient surface sank to its current depth as a single unit. This would explain why features around the basin's edge. which would have formed as the surface dropped, seem to be younger than structures at its floor.

  The third possibility is that the northern lowlands result from impacts. Some researchers suggest they formed as a series of big overlapping impact craters. Others, arguing that the odds against such a pattern of impacts are large, postulate a single event--the impact of an object bigger than any asteroid the solar system now contains.

  As presented in the passage. McGill's account of the formation of Mars's northern basin differs from the others mentioned in that it alone

  A. explains the formation of certain northern bedrock features
  B. does no! specify the force that caused the northern basin to be lower than its surroundings
  C. takes the northern basin to be a landform that is not analogous to any found on Earth
  D. denies that features around the northern basin are the result of tectonic activity
  E. attributes the creation of the northern lowlands to processes occurring within the planet
  B. does no! specify the force that caused the northern basin to be lower than its surroundings

• Question 123:

  

  A. Option A
  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  E. Option E
  E. Option E

• Question 124:

  Exhibit.

  

  In the figure above, the circle has center O, and AB and AD are tangent to the circle. If the degree measures of angles ABC and ADC are 20 and 40. respectively, what is the value of x + y.

  A. 140
  B. 160
  C. 190
  D. 210
  E. 240
  D. 210

• Question 125:

  At a grocery store. Joe bought n bottles of a certain shampoo for a total price of SI 2. 00. At a drugstore, Ann bought In bottles of the same shampoo for a total price of $16. 00.

  

  A. Quantity A is greater.
  B. Quantity B is greater.
  C. The two quantities are equaled.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
  B. Quantity B is greater.

• Question 126:

  

  A. Option A
  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  E. Option E
  A. Option A

• Question 127:

  

  A. Quantity A is greater.
  B. Quantity B is greater.
  C. The two quantities are equal.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
  B. Quantity B is greater.

• Question 128:

  Recently, we have seen the emergence of the food movement, or perhaps we should say "movements." since it is (i)_________as yet by little more than the recognition that industrial food production is in need of reform because its social or environmental or public health or animal welfare or gastronomic costs are too high. As that list suggests, the activists are coming at the issue (ii)_________. Where many social movements, over time, break into various factions representing differing concerns or tactics, the food movement has been (iii)_________from its beginning.

  A. tempered
  B. impeded
  C. unified
  D. in increasing numbers
  E. from divergent directions
  F. with renewed commitment
  G. ideological
  H. splintered
  I. effective
  C. unified
  E. from divergent directions
  G. ideological

• Question 129:

  To help the reader understand the actions of and the decisions made by people of another time, the historian's narrative must be_________what they knew; the narrative should not refer to anything not known until later.

  A. hinted at by
  B. antithetical to
  C. at odds with
  D. circumscribed by
  E. limited to
  F. consistent with
  D. circumscribed by
  F. consistent with

• Question 130:

  For which of the following values of v must x'-.x be divisible by 10?

  Indicate all such values.

  A. 480
  B. 481
  C. 4S2
  D. 483
  E. 484
  F. 485
  G. 486
  H. 487
  A. 480
  B. 481
  E. 484
  F. 485
  G. 486