GRE Free Practice Test

- (Topic 3)
To help the reader understand the actions of and the decisions made by people of another time, the historian's narrative must be _____ what they knew; the narrative should not refer to anything not known until later.

1. A. hinted at by
2. B. antithetical to
3. C. at odds with
4. D. circumscribed by
5. E. limited to
6. F. consistent with

Correct Answer: DF

- (Topic 2)
Of the S3 members of a certain club. 48 members enjoy boating and $3 members enjoy fishing. If all except 10 of the members of the club enjoy boating or fishing or both, how many members enjoy boating but not fishing?

1. A. 15
2. B. 25
3. C. 38
4. D. 40
5. E. 48

Correct Answer: D

- (Topic 2)
In which of the years shown was the total number of first-year students at College .V greatest?

1. A. 1991
2. B. 1992
3. C. 1993
4. D. 1994
5. E. 1995

Correct Answer: B

- (Topic 3)
Although a Inch concentration of cholesterol in the blood increases the body's ability to fight off infections it typically also increases the risk of dying from a stroke or heart attack, two of the most common causes of death However, in a recently completed ten-year study of people eighty-five and older, higher cholesterol levels tended to be associated with greater longevity.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the contrast between the highlighted effect of high cholesterol levels and the result of the study?

1. A. Both heart attacks and strokes are typically brought on by an obstruction of the flow of blood through a blood vessel.
2. B. Blood cholesterol levels can be controlled in part by suitable dietary regimens
3. C. Among the participants m the study, the proportion with very high blood cholesterol levels was higher than among the general population.
4. D. Regular monitoring of the participants in the study revealed that most of them maintained relatively stable blood cholesterol levels over tune.
5. E. As people ag
6. F. the body's ability to fight off infections diminishes.

Correct Answer: D

- (Topic 3)
The poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African Americans of the southern United States. Although Dunbar's works were both popular with readers am! acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the poet James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the 1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psyclwlogical. and historical dimensions of Dunbar's works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning Litrary critics?? evaluations of Dunbar's poetry?

1. A. During Dunbar's lifetime, critics did not commonly evaluate his works according to aesthetic criteria.
2. B. Negative critical evaluations of Dunbar's poetry on social grounds caused his work to become less popular with the reading public in the period following the First World War.
3. C. In the period between the First World War and the 1970s, critics did not commonly evaluate Dunbar's works in terms of psychological and historical considerations.
4. D. A reversal of a negative critical trend led to wider popularity of Dunbar's works among the reading public in the 1970s.
5. E. In the 1970s, scholars began to reevaluate Dunbar's work in the light of James Weldon Johnson's criticism of the limitations of dialect poetry.

Correct Answer: C