FIB Practice Set 5

Question 1: The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criti­cized Dickens' Oliver Twist for making the charac­ters in the thieves' kitchen so__________.

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	threatening
	riveting
	conniving
	fearsome
	irritating

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Question 2: The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to _________ its significance.

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	underrate
	control
	reassess
	praise
	eliminate

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Question 3: Their mutual teasing seemed ___________ , but in fact it ____________ a long-standing hostility.

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	aimless...produced
	friendly...masked
	playful…contravened
	bitter…revealed
	clever...alerted

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Question 4: Noting that few employees showed any __________ for complying with the corporation's new safety regulations, Peterson-itwas forced to conclude that accep­tance of the regulations would be _________, at best.

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	aptitude…unavoidable
	regard…indeterminate
	respect…negotiable
	patience...imminent
	enthusiasm…grudging

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Question 5: It has been argued that politics as ____, whatever its transcendental claims, has always been the sys­tematic organization of common hatreds.

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	a theory
	an ideal
	a practice
	a contest
	an enigma

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