FIB Practice Set 47

Question 1: There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is _____other forms.

	segregated from
	parallel to
	dependent on
	overshadowed by
	mimicked by

Question 2: The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of _____for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to _____ its own continental coastline.

	negligence..fortify
	custom..maintain
	convenience..stabilize
	expediency..defend
	exigency..reinforce

Question 3: Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and human¬ism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a _____between them.

	generality
	fusion.
	congruity
	dichotomy
	reciprocity

Question 4: A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist's subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling _____ the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.

	facilitates
	averts
	neutralizes
	implies
	represses

Question 5: While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly _____by their lively criticism.