GRE Practice General Test #1 Answer Key

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GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS® Practice General Test #1
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other countries. Revised GRE® Practice Test Number 1 Answer Key for Section 1. Verbal Reasoning. 25 Questions. Question 1 Answer: A. In various parts of the world, civilizations that could not make
iron from ore fashioned tools out of fragments of iron from meteorites.
Question 2 Answer: A. An increased focus on the importance of engaging the audience in
a narrative
Question 3 Answer: C. speak to
Question 4 Answer: A. People with access to an electric washing machine
typically wore their clothes many fewer times before washing them than did
people without access to electric washing machines.
Question 5 Answer: C. insular
Answer in context: In the 1950's, the country's inhabitants were insular:
most of them knew very little about foreign countries.
Question 6 Answer: E. insincere
Answer in context: Since she believed him to be both candid and
trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had
been insincere.
Question 7 Answer: A. maturity
Answer in context: It is his dubious distinction to have proved what
nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes
with all the characteristics of maturity.
Question 8 Answer: C. comparing two scholarly debates and discussing their
histories
Question 9 Answer: D. identify a reason for a certain difference in the late
1970's between the origins debate and the debate over American women's
status
Question 10 Answer: D. Their approach resembled the approach taken in studies by
Wood and by Mullin in that they were interested in the experiences of
people subjected to a system of subordination.
Question 11 Answer: A. gave more attention to the experiences of enslaved women
Question 12 Answer:
A. construe
F. collude in Answer in context: The narratives that vanquished peoples have created of
their defeat have, according to Schivelbusch, fallen into several
identifiable types. In one of these, the vanquished manage to construe the
victor's triumph as the result of some spurious advantage, the victors
being truly inferior where it counts. Often the winners collude in this
interpretation, worrying about the cultural or moral costs of their triumph
and so giving some credence to the losers' story.
Question 13 Answer:
B. settled
E. ambiguity
G. similarly equivocal Answer in context: I've long anticipated this retrospective of the
artist's work, hoping that it would make settled judgments about him
possible, but greater familiarity with his paintings highlights their
inherent ambiguity and actually makes one's assessment similarly equivocal.
Question 14 Answer:
A. a debased
E. goose bumps Answer in context: Stories are a haunted genre; hardly a debased kind of
story, the ghost story is almost the paradigm of the form, and goose bumps
was undoubtedly one effect that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how
stories work.
Question 15 Answer:
C. patent
E. improbable
Answer in context: Given how patent the shortcomings of the standard
economic model are in its portrayal of human behavior, the failure of many
economists to respond to them is astonishing. They continue to fill the
journals with yet more proofs of yet more improbable theorems. Others, by
contrast, accept the criticisms as a challenge, seeking to expand the basic
model to embrace a wider range of things people do.
Question 16 Answer:
B. startling
D. jettison Answer in context: The playwright's approach is startling in that her
works jettison the theatrical devices normally used to create drama on the
stage.
Question 17 Answer:
B. create
F. logical Answer in context: Scientists are not the only persons who examine the
world about them by the use of rational processes, although they sometimes
create this impression by extending the definition of "scientist" to
include anyone who is logical in his or her investigational practices.
Question 18 Answer: C. It presents a specific application of a general principle.
Question 19 Answer: A. outstrip
Question 20 Answer: B. It is a mistake to think that the natural world contains
many areas of pristine wilderness.
Question 21 Answer: C. coincident with
Question 22 Sentence to be Completed:
Dreams are BLANK in and of themselves, but, when combined with other data,
they can tell us much about the dreamer.
Answer: D. inscrutable, F. uninformative
Question 23 Sentence to be Completed:
Linguistic science confirms what experienced users of ASL-American Sign
Language-have always implicitly known: ASL is a grammatically BLANK
language, as capable of expressing a full range of syntactic relations as
any natural spoken language.
Answer: A. complete, F. unlimited
Question 24 Sentence to be Completed:
The macromolecule RNA is common to all living beings, and DNA, which is
found in all organisms except some bacteria, is almost as BLANK.
Answer: D. universal, F. ubiquitous
Question 25 Sentence to be Completed:
Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook for simple-mindedness the
surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such BLANK.
Answer: B. craft, C. cunning
This is the end of the answer key for Revised GRE Practice Test 1, Section
1. Revised GRE Practice Test Number 1 Answer Key for Section 2. Verbal Reasoning. 25 Questions. Question 1 Sentence to be Completed: In the long run, high-technology communications
cannot BLANK more traditional face-to-face family togetherness, in
Aspinall's view.
Answer: C. supercede, F. supplant
Question 2 Sentence to be Completed: Even in this business, where BLANK is part of
everyday life, a talent for lying is not something usually found on one's
resume.
Answer: B. mendacity, C. prevarication
Question 3 Sentence to be Completed: A restaurant's menu is generally reflected in its
decor; however despite this restaurant's BLANK appearance it is pedestrian
in the menu it offers.
Answer: A. elegant, F. chic (spelled C H I C)
Question 4 Sentence to be Completed: International financial issues are typically
BLANK by the United States media because they are too technical to make
snappy headlines and too inaccessible to people who lack a background in
economics.
Answer: A. neglected, B. slighted
Question 5 Sentence to be Completed: While in many ways their personalities could not
have been more different-she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where
he was awkward, garrulous where he was BLANK-they were surprisingly well
suited.
Answer: D. laconic, F. taciturn
Question 6 Answer: D. spirituals
Question 7 Answer: B. They had little working familiarity with such forms of
American music as jazz, blues, and popular songs.
Question 8 Answer: E. neglected Johnson's contribution to classical symphonic
music
Question 9 Answer: C. The editorial policies of some early United States
newspapers became a counterweight to proponents of traditional values.
Question 10 Answer: A. insincerely
Question 11 Answer:
Blank 1 C. multifaceted
Blank 2 F. extraneous Answer in context: The multifaceted nature of classical tragedy in Athens
belies the modern image of tragedy: in the modern view tragedy is austere
and stripped down, its representations of ideological and emotional
conflicts so superbly compressed that there's nothing extraneous for time
to erode.
Question 12 Answer:
Blank 1 C. ambivalence
Blank 2 E. successful
Blank 3 H. assuage Answer in context: Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is
her best in many years, has been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century,
although often regarded with ambivalence, but the most successful of these
paintings assuage all doubts.
Question 13 Answer:
B. a doctrinaire Answer in context: Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but
enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as a
doctrinaire thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy
while censoring ideas he did not like.
Question 14 Answer: C. recapitulates Answer in context: Dramatic literature often recapitulates the history of
a culture in that it takes as its subject matter the important events that
have shaped and guided the culture.
Question 15 Answer: E. affirm the thematic coherence underlying Raisin in the Sun
Question 16 Answer: C. The painter of this picture could not intend it to be
funny; therefore, its humor must result from a lack of skill.
Question 17 Answer: E. (Sentence 5) But the play's complex view of Black self-
esteem and human solidarity as compatible is no more "contradictory" than
DuBois's famous, well-considered ideal of ethnic self-awareness coexisting
with human unity, or Fanon's emphasis on an ideal internationalism that
also accommodates national identities and roles.
Question 18 Answer: C. Because of shortages in funding, the organizing committee
of the choral festival required singers to purchase their own copies of the
music performed at the festival.
Question 19 Answer:
Blank 1 C. mimicking
Blank 2 D. transmitted to Answer in context: New technologies often begin by mimicking what has gone
before, and they change the world later. Think how long it took power-
using companies to recognize th