GRE GRE Certifications GRE-TEST Questions & Answers

• Question 151:

  A large cube and a small cube are made of granite of uniform density- The large cube has edges of length 1.2 meters and weighs 4.752 kilograms. If the small cube has edges of length 10 centimeters, what is the weight, in grains, of the small cube?

  A. 275

  B. 396

  C. 570

  D. 2.750

  E. 3.960

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 152:

  Responsibility for the nation's decline rests squarely with a people who take for granted their claims to preeminence but do not_________interest in or commitment to actually maintaining it.

  A. foresee

  B. rebuff

  C. evince

  D. reject

  E. predict

  F. betray

  Correct Answer: CF

• Question 153:

  The story lines of silent dramas may often have been_________. yet within those basic narrative outlines,

  the true artists among silent-film actors could express emotional shadings that have no analogue in spoken

  A. language.

  B. implausible

  C. incredible

  D. conventional

  E. elemental

  F. rudimentary

  G. confusing

  Correct Answer: DE

• Question 154:

  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 general criticisms of dialect poetry is mentioned in the passage?

  A. Dialect poetry too often uses only the dialect of African Americans living in rural areas of the southern United States.

  B. Dialect poetry is highly limited in the number of artistic effects it can produce.

  C. Dialect poetry fails to represent mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of experience.

  D. The use of dialect in poetry tends to perpetuate plantation stereotypes of African Americans.

  E. Dialect poetry has only a limited degree of popular appeal

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 155:

  One difficulty in convincing early scientists that craters fanned as a result of impacts from space is that most craters are circular. Impacts could come in at any angle, and experiments firing projectiles in the laboratory show that low-angle impacts lead to elliptical craters, not circular ones. Furthermore, while there was rarely evidence of any impacting object, there was often silicate melt around, suggesting that craters were caused by volcanic processes. The breakthrough in understanding crater origin was the recognition that the shock caused by the impacting object--not the object itself--creates a circular crater some twenty Times larger than the diameter of the impactor. The impact also generates enough heat to largely vaporize the impactor and melt the native rock.

  What can be inferred from the passage about the silicate melt found around craters?

  A. It was not caused exclusively by volcanic processes.

  B. It led early scientists to consider volcanic activity as a cause of crater formation.

  C. It can probably be explained by the intense heat caused by impact

  Correct Answer: ABC

• Question 156:

  The town's air was consistently________ depending on the breeze, one might be greeted with the sour

  effluvia of twenty breweries, choking fumes from the coal tar factory, or brackish smells from the nearby river.

  A. malodorous

  B. toxic

  C. redolent

  D. benign

  E. noisome

  F. anodyne

  Correct Answer: AC

• Question 157:

  Divided into separate essays on different aspects of Jacques-Louis David's late career. Bordes' catalog (i)_________ a great deal of knowledge, never providing a full introduction to the painter's life or to the period in which he lived.

  Yet while the book may (ii)_________the casual reader, cognoscenti will delight in the wonderfully complete detail

  on each picture, not to mention the caustic little jabs at colleagues that Bordes occasionally delivers. The world of David scholarship, as befits its subject, is not a (iii)_________place.

  contains

  assumes

  A. disputes

  B. satisfy

  C. frustrate

  D. address

  E. gentle

  F. competitive

  G. sophisticated

  Correct Answer: AEG

• Question 158:

  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 am! 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, psyclwlogical. 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 Litrary critics' evaluations of Dunbar's poetry?

  A. During Dunbar's lifetime, critics did not commonly evaluate his works according to aesthetic criteria.

  B. Negative critical evaluations of Dunbar's poetry on social grounds caused his work to become less popular with the reading public in the period following the First World War.

  C. In the period between the First World War and the 1970s, critics did not commonly evaluate Dunbar's works in terms of psychological and historical considerations.

  D. A reversal of a negative critical trend led to wider popularity of Dunbar's works among the reading public in the 1970s.

  E. In the 1970s, scholars began to reevaluate Dunbar's work in the light of James Weldon Johnson's criticism of the limitations of dialect poetry.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 159:

  As originally formulated, the selfish-herd theory of prey species aggregation assumed that predatory attacks were equally likely to be launched from any position within the environment. In some circumstances (e.g.. avian predators attacking prey from above), such an approach is appropriate. However, as James et at. argue, in many predator-prey associations, attacks are unlikely to occur from positions within the group. For example, it is likely that an ambushing predator waiting in the path of a group would be detected before the group moves over its position. Hence, in many ecological situations, predatory attacks on grouped prey will occur exclusively from outside the group. In such circumstances, there is a strong premium to a group member in being in the interior of the group.

  The passage suggests that compared to members of the prey groups in "some circumstances." certain members of the prey groups in "many ecological situations" are likely to be less

  A. skilled at detecting ambushing predators

  B. vulnerable to predator attacks

  C. able to reach escape routes to avoid predators

  Correct Answer: AB

• Question 160:

  Scholars generally estimate subscribers to Freedom z Journal (1827-1829), the United States" first African American newspaper, at around 800. based on subscriptions to The Rights of AIL an African American newspaper founded in 1829 as a successor to Freedom s Journal by a former editor of that newspaper But Gross argues that many more than 800 readers probably subscribed to Freedom X Journal because many of its subscribers, dissatisfied with the direction ultimately taken by the paper, refused to subscribe to The Rights of All. In any case, the figure of 800 subscribers would make the circulation of Freedom s Journal close to that of other weekly papers of the time Its number of readers, however, would have been much larger: copies were often shared. and African American organizations subscribed to Freedom s Journal, providing nonsubscribers access to the paper

  Which of the following, if true, would most lend to undermine Gross's argument mentioned in the highlighted portion of the passage?

  A. A larger number of African American organizations subscribed to Freedom s Journal than to The Rights of Ail.

  B. While many of the subscribers to Freedom s Journal did become dissatisfied with the paper over time, most of its readers were initially highly supportive of the paper

  C. Many people who had not subscribed to Freedom s Journal bought subscriptions to The Rights of All.

  D. The editorial direction of The Rights of All followed closely the direction that Freedom s Journal had taken.

  E. Copies of The Rights of Alt were shared more frequently with nonsubscribers than were copies of Freedom s Journal.

  Correct Answer: C