Admission Test Section One : Verbal Sample Questions:

1. TARANTULA : SPIDER

A) drone: bee
B) fly: parasite
C) sheep: grass
D) milk: cow
E) mare: stallion

2. Shakespeare's _______ of Richard III is so _______ that it is difficult to imagine that the ruler had been
dead for more than a century before the Bard cast him as the central character in one of his plays.

A) depiction . . vivid
B) criticism . . candid
C) rendition . . compelling
D) portrayal . . droll
E) caricature . . inventive

3. The first person in the group starts off by naming anything that is geographical. It could be a city, state,
country, river, lake, or any proper geographical term. For example, the person might say,"Boston." The
second person has ten seconds to think of how the word ends and come up with another geographical
term starting with that letter. The second participant might say, "Norway," since the geographical term has
to start with "N." The third person would have to choose a word beginning with " Y." If a player fails to think
of a correct answer within the time limit, that player is out of the game. The last person to survive is the
champion.
The person trying to answer needs-

A) to know something about spelling and geography
B) no time limit
C) to be a good speller
D) to know geography only
E) to ignore the last letters of words

4. King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette ruled France from 1774 to 1789, a time when the country was
fighting bankruptcy. The royal couple did not let France's insecure financial situation limit their
immoderate spending, however. Even though the minister of finance repeatedly warned the king and
queen against wasting money, they continued to spend great fortunes on their personal pleasure. This
lavish spending greatly enraged the people of France. They felt that the royal couple bought its luxurious
lifestyle at the poor people's expense. Marie Antoinette, the beautiful but exceedingly impractical queen,
seemed uncaring about her subjects; misery. While French citizens begged for lower taxes, the queen
embellished her palace with extravagant works of art. She also surrounded herself with artists, writers,
and musicians, who encouraged the queen to spend money even more profusely. While the queen's
favorites glutted themselves on huge feasts at the royal table, many people in France were starving. The
French government taxed the citizens outrageously. These high taxes paid for the entertainments the
queen and her court so enjoyed. When the minister of finance tried to stop these royal spendthrifts, the
queen replaced him. The intense hatred that the people felt for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette kept
building until it led to the French Revolution. During this time of struggle and violence (1789-1799),
thousands of aristocrats, as well as the king and queen themselves, lost their lives at the guillotine.
Perhaps if Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had reined in their extravagant spending, the events that
rocked France would not have occurred.
The people surrounding the queen encouraged her to spend money ____.

A) wisely
B) joyfully
C) carefully
D) abundantly
E) foolishly

5. Recent advances in molecular biology and genetics (i)_______ to the position that as physical beings our
actions are determined by physical forces beyond our control-the age-old "determinist" viewpoint.
(ii)_______, this new research suggests that such physical forces include our individual genetic makeup.

A) In fact
B) lend credence
C) take exception
D) Specifically
E) Moreover
F) give rise

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