GRE Verbal Test
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Test Questions
1. Because of his success as a comedian, directors were loath to consider him for ________ roles.
(A) supporting
(B) leading
(C) dramatic
(D) comedic
(E) musical
2. The aspiring candidate’s performance in the debate all but ________ any hope he may have had of winning the election.
(A) nullifies
(B) encourages
(C) guarantees
(D) accentuates
(E) contains
3. She is the most ________ person I have ever met, seemingly with an endless reserve of energy.
(A) jejune
(B) vivacious
(C) solicitous
(D) impudent
(E) indolent
4. Liharev flirts with being both a nihilist and an atheist during his life, yet he never does ________ faith in God.
(A) affirm
(B) lose
(C) scorn
(D) aver
(E) supplicate
5. Her snide remarks, her simpering smile, and above all, her unceasing insubordination drove Katie to conclude that her teenage daughter was the most ________ child that had ever lived.
(A) docile
(B) zealous
(C) incorrigible
(D) primal
(E) irredeemable
(F) amenable
6. While many find the writings of early feminist writers such as Mary Woolstonecraft to be enlightening and still relevant, others find their writings ________.
(A) archaic
(B) inane
(C) idiosyncratic
(D) antediluvian
(E) illuminative
(F) edifying
7. Judith feigned a forgotten wallet to evade paying for dinner, proving she had surpassed frugality and become ________.
(A) jejune
(B) parsimonious
(C) prudent
(D) penitent
(E) economical
(F) miserly
8. Bradford’s many notorious trysts with various supermodels have earned him a reputation as a ________.
(A) libertine
(B) philanthropist
(C) marionette
(D) lecher
(E) patriarch
(F) puritan
9. Existential philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche are known for focusing on the subjective aspects of life rather than the ________.
(A) obscure
(B) personal
(C) disingenuous
(D) dispassionate
(E) illusory
(F) unbiased
Passage for Question 10:
As Xenophanes recognized as long ago as the sixth century before Christ, whether or not God made man in His own image, it is certain that man makes gods in his. The gods of Greek mythology first appear in the writings of Homer and Hesiod, and, from the character and actions of these picturesque and, for the most part, friendly beings, we get some idea of the men who made them and brought them to Greece.
But ritual is more fundamental than mythology, and the study of Greek ritual during recent years has shown that, beneath the belief or skepticism with which the Olympians were regarded, lay an older magic, with traditional rites for the promotion of fertility by the celebration of the annual cycle of life and death, and the propitiation of unfriendly ghosts, gods or demons. Some such survivals were doubtless widespread, and, prolonged into classical times, probably made the substance of Eleusinian and Orphic mysteries. Against this dark and dangerous background arose Olympic mythology on the one hand and early philosophy and science on the other.
In classical times the need of a creed higher than the Olympian was felt, and Aeschylus, Sophocles and Plato finally evolved from the pleasant but crude polytheism the idea of a single, supreme and righteous Zeus. But the decay of Olympus led to a revival of old and the invasion of new magic cults among the people, while some philosophers were looking to a vision of the uniformity of nature under divine and universal law.
10. The main idea of the passage is that
(A) Olympic mythology evolved from ancient rituals and gave rise to early philosophy
(B) early moves toward viewing nature as ordered by divine and universal law coincided with monotheistic impulses and the disintegration of classical mythology
(C) early philosophy followed from classical mythology
(D) the practice of science, i.e., empiricism, preceded scientific theory
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