FIB Practice Set 70
Question 1: In the seventeenth century, direct flouting of a generally accepted system of values was regarded as ____, even as a sign of madness.| adventurous | |
| frivolous | |
| willful | |
| impermissible | |
| irrational |
Question 2: Queen Elizabeth 1 has quite correctly been called ____ a of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.
| connoisseur | |
| critic | |
| friend | |
| scourge | |
| judge |
Question 3: Because outlaws were denied ____ under medi¬cal law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal ____.
| propriety..authority | |
| protection..impunity | |
| collusion..consent | |
| rights..collaboration | |
| provisions..validity |
Question 4: Rather than enhancing a country's security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country's ____.
| boldness | |
| influence | |
| responsibility | |
| moderation | |
| vulnerability |
Question 5: The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers, and because of this, can claim humanity's longest contin-uous ____ of natural events.
| defiance | |
| documentation | |
| maintenance | |
| theory | |
| domination |
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