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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The author regards the situation described in the highlighted sentence as interesting primarily because
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The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about "their disagreement" with Montesquieu' s theory?
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In a remote area of Cleland County, there are large, privately owned land parcels with privately constructed and maintained roads crossing them. Drivers use the private roads as shortcuts, so these roads are traveled as much as the area' s public roads. Only the public roads are subject to strict safety regulations about construction and upkeep; nevertheless, the two kinds of road have similar accident rates. Clearly, the regulations do nothing to improve safety conditions on these remote public roads.
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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Historian Sheilagh Ogilvie challenges the view that training by European craft guilds from 1560 to 1760 was necessary. Her main evidence, however, is based only on female employment in one guild. Like most other guilds, the Wildberg weavers' guild banned women from becoming masters; however, it exempted masters' widows. Indeed, widows accounted for 14 percent of all masters. Ogilvie claims that these "untrained" widows prove "the irrelevance of training." But Wildberg master-widows were not untrained: for, as Ogilvie notes elsewhere, wives and children worked with masters; their training may have been informal, but it existed nonetheless. [hl:1]At least 80 percent of widows were married to masters for longer than the standard six-year apprenticeship; an unknown proportion of the remainder had grown up in weaving families[/hl:1].
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In context, the primary function of the final sentence of the passage is to
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The author' s evaluation of Ogilvie' s argument focuses primarily on Ogilvie' s
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The Great Sphinx, a huge statue in the Sahara Desert, has a lion' s body and a man' s head. The face was long thought to be that of the pharaoh Khafre, who lived around 2600 B.C. Certain erosion patterns recently discovered on the Sphinx' s legs can only have been caused by heavy rains. Since the Sahara has not had heavy rains in over 10,000 years, the face of the Sphinx cannot possibly be that of Khafre.
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The argument that the Sphinx' s face is not that of Khafre relies on which of the following as an assumption?
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Some argue that translators should be paid royalties and share in the commercial success of works they translate rather than earning a flat fee. This is nonsense. Umberto Eco was better translated by Richard Dixon than by William Weaver, but Eco' s bestseller The Name of the Rose, which Weaver translated, was an infinitely better book than Numero Zero, translated by Dixon. Why should one translator grow rich and the other not? Popular novelists J. K. Rowling and Stieg Larsson are easy to translate. Should publishers skew translators' earnings by giving vast sums to those doing work that is immeasurably easier than, say, Galassi' s translations of Montale' s poems? Introducing royalties would encourage the finest translators to drop literary work altogether and concentrate on popular novels.
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The author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about authors and their translators?
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the passage' s argument depends?
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Spanish documents concerning the Southwestern United States show that after A.D. 1600, the Apache, Athapaskan-speaking Native Americans, inhabited Southwestern locations in sizable numbers. [hl:3]Traditional interpretations[/hl:3] of the rapid spread of these Athapaskan speakers across this region during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries assume that Apaches moved into largely unoccupied territory. However, existing data fail to confirm that the Apache were actually moving across this territory in the large numbers suggested by post-1600 Spanish documents. An explanation for this [hl:2]discrepancy[/hl:2] may lie in sixteenth-century Spanish expeditionary narratives that, despite their uneven quality and tendency to exaggerate, generally suggest that much of the Southwest was inhabited by non-Athapaskan speaking, mobile hunter-gatherer Native American groups who had once been sedentary pueblo-dwellers. If Athapaskan speakers such as the Apache routinely assimilated indigenous hunter-gatherer populations, as they did during the seventeenth century in the La Junta region, then the large number of people that the post-1600 Spanish documents identified as Apache may actually include indigenous groups who were assimilated by the Apache.
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The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the spread of the Athapaskan language across the Southwest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
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The "discrepancy" refers to the
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The author of the passage suggests which of the following about the "traditional interpretations" ?
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For a list of $$k$$ consecutive integers, the median is $$m$$ and the range is $$r$$. Which of the following must be equal to $$k$$?
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In the xy-plane, the x-intercept of line $$l$$ is $$2$$ and the y-intercept of line $$l$$ is $$8$$. Line $$k$$ is parallel to line $$l$$. Which of the following must be true for the intercepts of line $$k$$?
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At an online bookstore, the annual sales in 2014 were $$15$$ percent greater than those of 2013, the annual sales in 2015 were $$25$$ percent greater than those of 2014, the annual sales in 2016 were $$35$$ percent less than those of 2015, and the annual sales in 2017 were $$5$$ percent less than those of 2016. Which of the following best describes the annual sales in 2017 compared with those of 2013?
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