FIB Practice Set 44

Question 1: Whereas the art critic Vasari saw the painting entitled the Mona Lisa as an original and won¬derful _____feat, the reproduction of a natural object, the aesthetes saw it as ____that required deciphering.

	collaborative..an aberration
	historical..a symbol
	technical..a hieroglyph
	mechanical..an imitation
	visual..an illusion

Question 2: As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming as the result of natural ability rather than ____, an education in agriculture was ____.

	instruction vital
	effort..difficult
	learning..useless
	science..intellectual
	luck..senseless

Question 3: In spite of the _____nature of Scotland's terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe _____.

	rocky..weather
	mountainous..grades
	uncharted..flooding
	unpredictable..damage
	landlocked..slipperiness

Question 4: Walpole's art collection was huge and fascinating, and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who _____ him as, at best _____.