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The author mentions "grave furnishings" primarily to
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The passage implies which of the following about Roman archaeologists and ancient historians?
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the arguments?
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The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about ragtime? (Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.)
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In the context in which it appears, "ideal" most nearly means
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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According to the passage, Legal Realists determined the usefulness of legal principles on the basis of which of the following?
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Which of the following best describes the relationship of the final sentence of the passage to the sentence that precedes it?
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The passage suggests that Monroe believed that finding "an entrenched place, a voice of power" for poetry would rely on which of the following? "(Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.)
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The author mentions "visual artists, architects, and musicians" primarily to
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Biographer John Richardson cautions that Picasso' s relationship with Surrealism is easily (i)________. He stresses that, unlike the Surrealists' , Picasso' s art was always rooted in some concrete reality, no matter how unreal the imagery may seem; even his most (ii)________ pictures are representations of the people in his life.
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While many tools can automatically locate patterns in large data sets, they cannot yet distinguish truly significant patterns from those that are (i)________. Thus statisticians, who by virtue of their training are (ii)_________ identifying (iii)________ interpretations of patterns in data, must increasingly bear the burden of scrutinizing data and challenging conclusions based on statistical flukes.
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The best argument in favor of one space after a period over two is ________ one: one space is simpler, cleaner, and more visually pleasing.
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Wald' s decision to tell Rosetta Tharpe' s story to a wider audience in Shout, Sister, Shout! (i)________ the rigor of the book' s scholarship or the acuity of its theory. The scholarly quality of the work is (ii)_________ on every page, and yet it is not a dry, specialist academic tome.
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In ancient China, tin-rich ores were not as (i)_________ as copper-rich ores, and bronze—an alloy of copper and tin—was (ii)_________ material, as tin frequently had to be transported over large distances. As a result, unalloyed copper was probably used whenever (iii)________, since the metals used for farming and domestic purposes did not need to be as strong as the metals used for hunting and fighting.
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The ________ of governmental subsidies to obscure airports that are rarely used underscores the political difficulties of cutting funds from even the most unnecessary projects.
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