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Which of the following best characterizes the author's main point about the “comparisons"?
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The author implies that the “musical vision"
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Which of the following best describes the relationship of the second paragraph to the rest of the passage?
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According to the passage, nineteenth-century historians of the French Revolution would agree with each of the following statements about members of the French middle class of 1789 EXCEPT:
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According to the passage, nineteenth-century historians held which of the following views about the French Revolution of 1789?
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Which of the following statements best paraphrases the paradox alluded to by the author?
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Novelist Toni Morrison rejects the ____________ art and politics, insisting that art can be "unquestionably" political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Early natural history collections in eighteenth-century Europe were ____________: a bear's tooth might sit incongruously alongside a piece of silverwork or, in the menagerie, a South American capybara might be housed next to an African baboon.
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The argument is vulnerable to criticism on the ground that it
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following would most likely take place in the Mediterranean shrublands if the intensity of grazing decreased significantly?
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It can be inferred from the passage that supporters of the intermediate- disturbance hypothesis would most likely agree with which of the following claims?
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Ironically, the recent ____________ of the reductive observational methods that have enabled science to progress for four centuries may turn out to be science's next step forward.
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He listened patiently, encouragingly, and with quiet amusement to my enthusiasm. Indeed, this turned out to be our pattern: I, more ignorant but more (i)____________, would babble on, while he would offer (ii)________________ objection or refinement.
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Animals whose behavioral traits are (i)____________ thereby have a level of (ii)____________ when environmental conditions vary. However, studies of animal personality also suggest that the behavior of individual animals can be constrained to certain behavioral types, leading to consistent differences between individuals.
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Despite their (i)____________ superior financial and organizational resources, pulp and paper firms moving into the American South in the first half of the twentieth century could not simply impose their will on the region. Nor could they assume that properly functioning markets for land, labor, and timber would (ii)____________. Instead, they had to develop strategies to (iii)____________ such markets that would be compatible with the complex regional politics of land and labor.
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If a figure such as the editor and writer Pauline Hopkins presents (i)____________ challenges to a would-be biographer because of her confounding periods of silence, largely unknown personal life, and (ii)____________ papers, the problems posed by John Edward Bruce are of the opposite kind: he published (iii)____________ throughout his life, had an extensive correspondence, and left a huge trove of materials at his death.
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