FIB Practice Set 52

Question 1: The influence of the Timaeus among early philo¬sophical thinkers was ____, if only because it was the sole dialogue ____ in Europe for almost 1,000 years.

	pervasive..available
	inestimable..suppressed
	noteworthy..abridged
	underestimated..studied
	circumscribed..translated

Question 2: The Gibbons were little given to ____ in any form; not one of them was afraid of _____of being and seeming unlike their neighbors.

	humility..absurdity
	excellence..mediocrity
	anger..confrontation
	conformism..singularity
	ostentation..eccentricity

Question 3: Even after ____ against the ____ of popular sover¬eignty were included, major figures in the human-istic disciplines remained skeptical about the proposal to extend suffrage to the masses.

	recommendations..continuation
	safeguards..excesses
	arguments..introduction
	provisions..advantages
	laws...creation

Question 4: A recent survey shows that, while ninety-four percent of companies conducting management-training programs open them to women, women are ____only seventy-four percent of those programs.

	protesting against
	participating in
	displeased by
	allowed in
	refused by

Question 5: Thomas Paine, whose political writing was often flamboyant, was in private life a surprisingly ____man: he lived in rented rooms, ate little, and wore drab clothes