Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Although impractical, the design of the apartment building by Gins and Arakawa may improve the well-being of the building’s residents.

Although inhabiting a home surrounded by fanciful features such as those designed by Gins and Arakawa can be rejuvenating, it is unsustainable.

Designing disorienting spaces like those in the Gins and Arakawa building is the most effective way to create a physically stimulating environment.

As a filmmaker, Yamaoka has long supported the designs of conceptual artists such as Gins and Arakawa.

Which quotation from a work by a historian would best illustrate the student’s claim?

“Lumumba’s practical accomplishments can be passed over quickly; it is mainly as the personification of Congolese independence that he warrants scholarly attention.”

“Lumumba is a difficult figure to evaluate due to the starkly conflicting opinions he inspired during his life and continues to inspire today.”

“The available information makes it clear that Lumumba’s political beliefs and values were largely consistent throughout his career.”

“Many questions remain about Lumumba’s ultimate vision for an independent Congo; without new evidence coming to light, these questions are likely to remain unanswered.”

According to the text, what is true about Elinor? A) Elinor often argues with her mother but fails to change her mind. B) Elinor can be overly sensitive with regard to family matters. C) Elinor thinks her mother is a bad role model. D) Elinor is remarkably mature for her age.

Elinor is remarkably mature for her age.

Elinor often argues with her mother but fails to change her mind.

Elinor can be overly sensitive with regard to family matters.

Elinor thinks her mother is a bad role model.

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?

most of the farmers who mainly cultivated cereals and most of the farmers who mainly cultivated non–root vegetables in south Ondo were women.

more women in central Ondo mainly cultivated root crops than mainly cultivated cereals.

most of the farmers who mainly cultivated non–root vegetables in north and south Ondo were women.

a relatively equal proportion of women across the three regions of Ondo mainly cultivated cereals.

Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the astronomers’ claim?

Evidence emerges that the amount of iron in some rocky planets is considerably higher than the amount in their host star.

Most stars are made of hydrogen and helium, but when cooled they are revealed to contain small amounts of iron and silicate.

A nearby host star is observed to contain the same proportion of hydrogen and helium as that of the Sun.

The method for determining the composition of rocky planets is discovered to be less effective when used to analyze other kinds of planets.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Paredes’s argument?

Most of the folklore that the ethnographers collected consisted of corridos—ballads about history and social life—of a clearly recent origin.

The folklore that the ethnographers collected included several songs written in the form of a décima, a type of poem originating in late sixteenth-century Spain.

Much of the folklore that the ethnographers collected had similar elements from region to region.

Most of the folklore that the ethnographers collected was previously unknown to scholars.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

those farmers learned the techniques from other people who were more directly influenced by Haudenosaunee practices.

the crops typically cultivated by Euro-American farmers in the northeastern United States were not well suited to Haudenosaunee farming techniques.

Haudenosaunee farming techniques were widely used in regions outside the northeastern United States.

Euro-American farmers only began to recognize the benefits of Haudenosaunee farming techniques late in the nineteenth century.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

the artifacts originated elsewhere and eventually reached Kuulo Kataa through trade or migration.

artifacts from the fourteenth century CE are more commonly recovered than are artifacts from the thirteenth century CE.

Kuulo Kataa was founded by people from a different region than had previously been assumed.

excavations at Kuulo Kataa may have inadvertently damaged some artifacts dating to the fourteenth century CE.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

ELF3 enables A. thaliana to respond to increased temperatures.

temperature-sensitive accelerated flowering is unique to A. thaliana.

A. thaliana increases ELF3 production as temperatures rise.

temperatures of at least 22° Celsius are required for A. thaliana to flower.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Sam Maloof (1916–2009) was an American woodworker and furniture designer. • He was the son of Lebanese immigrants. • He received a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1985. • The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, owns a rocking chair that Maloof made from walnut wood. • The armrests and the seat of the chair are sleek and contoured, and the back consists of seven spindle-like slats. The student wants to describe the rocking chair to an audience unfamiliar with Sam Maloof. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

With its sleek, contoured armrests and seat, the walnut rocking chair in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is just one piece of furniture created by American woodworker Sam Maloof.

Sam Maloof was born in 1916 and died in 2009, and during his life, he made a chair that you can see if you visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Furniture designer Sam Maloof was a recipient of one of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grants.”

The rocking chair is made from walnut, and it has been shaped such that its armrests and seat are sleek and contoured.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • In the late 1890s, over 14,000 unique varieties of apples were grown in the US. • The rise of industrial agriculture in the mid-1900s narrowed the range of commercially grown crops. • Thousands of apple varieties considered less suitable for commercial growth were lost. • Today, only 15 apple varieties dominate the market, making up 90% of apples purchased in the US. • The Lost Apple Project, based in Washington State, attempts to find and grow lost apple varieties. The student wants to emphasize the decline in unique apple varieties in the US and specify why this decline occurred. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish these goals?

While over 14,000 apple varieties were grown in the US in the late 1890s, only 15 unique varieties make up most of the apples sold today.

The Lost Apple Project is dedicated to finding some of the apple varieties lost following a shift in agricultural practices in the mid-1900s.

Since the rise of industrial agriculture, US farmers have mainly grown the same few unique apple varieties, resulting in the loss of thousands of varieties less suitable for commercial growth.

As industrial agriculture rose to prominence in the mid-1900s, the number of crops selected for cultivation decreased dramatically.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Cecilia Vicuña is a multidisciplinary artist. • In 1971, her first solo art exhibition, Pinturas, poemas y explicaciones, was shown at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile. • Her poetry collection Precario/Precarious was published in 1983 by Tanam Press. • Her poetry collection Instan was published in 2002 by Kelsey St. Press. • She lives part time in Chile, where she was born, and part time in New York. The student wants to introduce the artist’s 1983 poetry collection. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

Published in 1983 by Tanam Press, Precario/Precarious is a collection of poetry by the multidisciplinary artist Cecilia Vicuña.

Before she published the books Precario/Precarious (1983) and Instan (2002), Cecilia Vicuña exhibited visual art at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile.

Cecilia Vicuña is a true multidisciplinary artist whose works include numerous poetry collections and visual art exhibitions.

In 1971, Cecilia Vicuña exhibited her first solo art exhibition, Pinturas, poemas y explicaciones, in Chile, her country of birth.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • When medical students mention their patients on social media, they may violate patient confidentiality. • Terry Kind led a study to determine how many medical schools have student policies that mention social media use. • Kind and her team reviewed 132 medical school websites, examining publicly available student policies. • Only thirteen medical schools had guidelines that explicitly mention social media, and only five defined what constitutes acceptable social media use. The student wants to emphasize the study’s methodology. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

To find out how many medical schools have guidelines about student social media use, Terry Kind and her team examined the student policies of 132 medical schools.

The student policies of 132 medical schools can be found online, according to research by Terry Kind.

Out of 132 medical schools, only thirteen had student policies that explicitly mention social media, and only five defined what constitutes acceptable social media use.

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In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved _______ use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

widespread

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unintended

infrequent

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30 sec • 1 pt

When Mexican-American archaeologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall published her 1886 research paper on sculptures found at the ancient Indigenous city of Teotihuacan in present-day Mexico, other researchers readily _______ her work as groundbreaking; this recognition stemmed from her convincing demonstration that the sculptures were much older than had previously been thought. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

acknowledged

ensured

denied

underestimated

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Like other tribal nations, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is self-governing; its National Council generates laws regulating aspects of community life such as land use and healthcare, while the principal chief and cabinet officials _______ those laws by devising policies and administering services in accordance with them. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

implement

presume

improvise

mimic

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In the Indigenous intercropping system known as the Three Sisters, maize, squash, and beans form an _______ web of relations: maize provides the structure on which the bean vines grow; the squash vines cover the soil, discouraging competition from weeds; and the beans aid their two “sisters” by enriching the soil with essential nitrogen. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

indecipherable

ornamental

obscure

intricate

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The artisans of the Igun Eronmwon guild in Benin City, Nigeria, typically _______ the bronze- and brass-casting techniques that have been passed down through their families since the thirteenth century, but they don’t strictly observe every tradition; for example, guild members now use air-conditioning motors instead of handheld bellows to help heat their forges. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

experiment with

adhere to

improve on

grapple with

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Some economic historians _______ that late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century households in the United States experienced an economy of scale when it came to food purchases—they assumed that large households spent less on food per person than did small households. Economist Trevon Logan showed, however, that a close look at the available data disproves this supposition. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

surmised

contrived

questioned

regretted

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The work of Kiowa painter T.C. Cannon derives its power in part from the tension among his _______ influences: classic European portraiture, with its realistic treatment of faces; the American pop art movement, with its vivid colors; and flat-style, the intertribal painting style that rejects the effect of depth typically achieved through shading and perspective. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

complementary

unknown

disparate

interchangeable

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