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Questions 33-34 refer to the passage below. “Woman has always been man’s dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shared the world in equality. Even when her rights are legally recognized in the abstract, long-standing custom prevents their full expression in the mores. In the economic sphere men and women can almost be said to make up two castes; other things being equal, [men] hold the better jobs, get higher wages, and have more opportunity for success than their new competitors [women].” Simone de Beauvois, The Second Sex, 1949 34.  As a result of the influence of Beauvois and others who shared her views, women

As a gas condenses to a liquid, it must

Questions 46-47 refer to the following two charts, showing economic data for England from 1500 to the present.    46.  Which of the following was the most direct cause of the change in typical working hours between 1500-1750?

Questions 28-29 refer to the passage below. “The storm has died away, and still we are restless, uneasy, as if the storm were about to break. Almost all the affairs of men remain in a terrible uncertainty. We think of what has disappeared, and we are almost destroyed by what has been destroyed; we do not know what will be born, and we fear the future, not without reason….Doubt and disorder are in us and with us. There is no thinking man, however shrewd or learned he may be, who can hope to dominate this anxiety, to escape from this impression of darkness… But among all these injured things is the mind. The Mind has indeed been cruelly wounded; its complaint has been heard in the hearts of intellectual man. It passes a mournful judgment on itself. It doubts itself profoundly.”  Paul Valery, speech at the University of Zurich, 1922 28.  The passage is most likely a reaction to

Questions 40-43 refer to the passage below. “We are motivated by the ideas of the 1917 October Revolution, the ideas of Lenin, the interests of the Soviet people. Moving from suspicion and hostility to confidence, from a “balance of fear” to a balance of reason and goodwill, from narrow nationalist egoism to cooperation—this is what we are urging. And if the Russian word “perestroika” has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union… We want freedom to reign supreme in the coming century everywhere in the world.” Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, 1987 43.  Gorbachev’s acceptance of some western ideas was most similar to which of the following Russian leaders?

When an ambulance is moving away from you, the frequency of the siren that you hear will be _________ than the frequency that the ambulance driver hears.

If there is a negligible air resistance, heavy objects fall faster than light objects because there is a stronger gravitational force acting on heavier objects.

The reason why a hot air balloon rises but a balloon of equal size filled with cold air does not rise is

During a collision between a large truck and a small car,

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