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.