- (Topic 2)
The graph summarizes the responses from 4.500 respondents who rated their degree of confidence in each of eight United States institutions. Each respondent gave each institution one of five confidence ratings: high, moderate, little, none, or undecided.

If 20 percent of the respondents rated both their degree of confidence in the federal government and their degree of confidence in the news media high or moderate, what percent of the respondents gave neither of these institutions a confidence rating of high or moderate?

1. A. 35%
2. B. 40%
3. C. 45%
4. D. 50%
5. E. 55%

Correct Answer: B
The graph summarizes the responses from 4.500 respondents who rated their degree of confidence in each of eight United States institutions. Each respondent gave each institution one of five confidence ratings: high, moderate, little, none, or undecided.

- (Topic 2)

1. A. Quantity A is greater.
2. B. Quantity B is greater.
3. C. The two quantities are equal.
4. D. The relationship cannot he determined from the information given.

Correct Answer: D

- (Topic 3)
Business leaders who prefer centralized, pyramidal managerial structures to diversity and competition tend to (i) _____ dissent in the decision-making process. But this insistence on (ii) _____ can be dangerous in that it deprives decision makers of a full range of alternatives.

1. A. foster
2. B. spontaneity
3. C. deprecate
4. D. unanimity'
5. E. overrate
6. F. ambiguity

Correct Answer: BE

- (Topic 3)
There is a long-standing historical presumption that social custom during ihe early years of the United States forbade women from public speaking. In fact, though, the standard mode of education of the 1790s and early 1800s. which emphasized oral recitation and performance, taught girls that educated and well-spoken women had an important role to play in American society. By depicting skilled speech as a necessary talent for women in a civilized society, elocutionary education encouraged a certain degree of female ambition and even political involvement. Transmitted via standard, inexpensive schoolbooks. this message reached virtually all who read schoolbooks or attended schools. This environment did not last long, however: even by the 1S10s. attitudes about women's education had changed considerably.
The passage suggests that women's education during the IS 10s differed from women's education during the 1790s and early 1800s in that women's education during the 1810s

1. A. placed less emphasis on public speaking
2. B. emphasized the relationship between rhetorical skills and civic virtue
3. C. assumed that women could become politically active
4. D. was based on a more modem vision of what constituted civilized society
5. E. suffered from the reduced availability of inexpensive textbooks

Correct Answer: A

- (Topic 3)
A divide between aesthetic and technical considerations has played a crucial role in mapmaking and cartographic scholarship. Some nineteenth-century cartographers, for instance, understood themselves as technicians who did not care about visual effects, while others saw themselves as landscape painters. That dichotomy structured the discipline of the history of cartography. Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called "the 'Old is Beautiful' paradigm.* scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800. marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age. Early mapmaking was considered art while modem cartography was located within the realm of engineering utility. Alpers. however, has argued that this boundary would have puzzled mapmakers in the seventeenth century, because they considered themselves to be visual engineers.
According to the passage. Alpers would say that the assumptions underlying the "paradigm" were

1. A. inconsistent with the way some mapmakers prior to 1800 understood their own work
2. B. dependent on a seventeenth-century conception of mapmaking as visual engineering
3. C. unconcerned with the difference between the aesthetic and the technical qualities of mapmaking
4. D. insensitive to divisions among cartographers working in the period after 1S00
5. E. supported by the demonstrable technical superiority of maps made after 1S00

Correct Answer: A