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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