FIB Practice Set 65

Question 1: Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical _____or a brilliant _____ blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.
stratagem..appropriation
exemplar..synthesis
conversion..annexation
paradigm.. construct
apparition...amalgam

Question 2: Clearly refuting skeptics, researchers have not _____ only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what theory _____it should do.
doubted..warranted
estimated..accepted
demonstrated..predicted
assumed..deduced
supposed..asserted

Question 3: Sponsors of the bill were _____ because there was no opposition to it within the legislature until after the measure had been signed into law
unreliable
well-intentioned
persistent
relieved
detained

Question 4: The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her _____ search for her daughter.
extended
agitated
comprehensive
motiveless
heartless

Question 5: Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadel¬phians in 1793, and so _____Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in _____ in the Western Hemi-sphere.
terrorized..contention
ravaged..secret
disabled..quarantine
corrupted..quiescence
decimated..abeyance

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