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Admission Test Section One : Verbal Sample Questions:

Question 1

WEAPON : INTIMIDATE ::

A. memory : recall
B. meal : serve
C. donor : give
D. icebox : preserve
E. sun : shine

Question 2

GIGANTIC : SIZE

A. heartrending:humor
B. substantial: mass
C. bankrupt: money
D. despondent: cheerfulness
E. marginal: volume

Question 3

The amount of bone in the elderly skeleton-a key determinant in its susceptibility to fractures-is believed
to be a function of two major factors. The first is the peak amount of bone mass attained, determined to a
large extent by genetic inheritance. The marked effect of gender is obvious: Elderly men experience only
one-half as many hip fractures per capita as elderly women. But also, African- American women have a
lower incidence of osteoporotic fractures than Caucasian women. Other important variables include diet,
exposure to sunlight, and physical activity. The second major factor is the rate of bone loss after peak
bone mass has been attained. While many of the variables that affect peak bone mass also affect rates of
bone loss, additional factors influencing bone loss include physiological stresses such as pregnancy and
lactation. It is hormonal status, however, reflected primarily by estrogen and progesterone levels, that
may exert the greatest effect on rates of decline in skeletal mass.
The passage clearly identifies all of the following as factors in the rate of bone-mass loss EXCEPT for

A. progesterone levels
B. pregnancy
C. estrogen levels
D. lactation
E. sunlight exposure

Question 4

Late Victorian and modern ideas of culture are indebted to Matthew Arnold, who, largely through his
Culture and Anarchy (1869), placed the word at the center of debates about the goals of intellectual life
and humanistic society. Arnold defined culture as "the pursuit of perfection by getting to know the best
which has been thought and said." Through this knowledge, Arnold hoped, we can turn "a fresh and free
thought upon our stock notions and habits." Although Arnold helped to define the purposes of the liberal
arts curriculum in the century following the publication of Culture, three concrete forms of dissent from his
views have had considerable impact of their own. The first protests Arnold's fearful designation of
"anarchy" as culture's enemy, viewing this dichotomy simply as another version of the struggle between a
privileged power structure and radical challenges to its authority. But while Arnold certainly tried to define
the arch-the legitimizing order of value-against the anarch of existentialist democracy, he himself was
plagued in his soul by the blind arrogances of the reactionary powers in his world. The writer who
regarded the contemporary condition with such apprehension in Culture is the poet who wrote "Dover
Beach," not an ideologue rounding up all the usual modern suspects. Another form of opposition saw
Arnold's culture as a perverse perpetuation of classical and literary learning, outlook, and privileges in a
world where science had become the new arch and from which any substantively new order of thinking
must develop. At the center of the "two cultures" debate were the goals of the formal educational
curriculum, the principal vehicle through which Arnoldian culture operates. However, Arnold himself had
viewed culture as enacting its life in a much more broadly conceived set of institutions. A third form is
so-called "multiculturalism," a movement aimed largely at gaining recognition for voices and visions that
Arnoldian culture has implicitly suppressed. In educational practice, multiculturalists are interested in
deflating the imperious authority that "high culture" exercises over curriculum while bringing into play the
principle that we must learn what is representative, for we have overemphasized what is exceptional.
Though the multiculturalists' conflict with Arnoldian culture has clear affinities with the radical critique,
multiculturalism actually affirms Arnold by returning us more specifically to a tension inherent in the idea
of culture rather than to the cultureanarchy dichotomy. The social critics, defenders of science, and
multiculturalists insist that Arnold's culture is simply a device for ordering us about. Instead, however, it is
designed to register the gathering of ideological clouds on the horizon. There is no utopian motive in
Arnold's celebration of perfection. Perfection mattered to Arnold as the only background against which we
could form a just image of our actual circumstances, just as we can conceive finer sunsets and unheard
melodies.
Based on the information in the passage, Arnold would probably agree that the educational curriculum
should

A. reflect the dominant culture of the day
B. be more rigorous than during the past
C. focus on the sciences more than the humanities
D. deemphasize what is representative
E. strike a balance between practicality and theory

Question 5

Since her older sister's _______ academic record had gained her admission to a highly respected college,
Martha became commensurately _______, hoping to secure admission a top-rated university.

A. perfunctory . . hard-working
B. laudable . . ambitious
C. impeccable . . studious
D. salutary . . diligent
E. exemplary . . optimistic

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