Question 1

A sociologist recently studied two sets of teenagers. The members of one set spent 10 or more hours per week watching violent television programs, and the members of the other set spent 2 hours or less per week watching violent television programs. A significantly greater proportion of the teenagers in the former group exhibited aggressive behavior during the period of the study. The sociologists reasoned that the prolonged exposure to television violence caused the aggressive behavior.

Which of the following, if true, of the teenagers in the study, provides the strongest challenge to the sociologist’s conclusion?

Options :

A : Some teenagers who watched more than 10 hours of violent television programming per week behaved less aggressively than others in the same group of teenagers

B : Some teenagers who watched 2 hours of violent television programming per week did not behave aggressively.

C : Some teenagers voluntarily stopped watching violent television programs after being victims of violence

D : Some teenagers watched violent television programs alone, while others did so in groups.

E : Many of the teenagers in the first group exhibited aggressive behavior before the study began.

Answer: A

Question 2

Advertisement: For sinus pain, three out of four hospitals give their patients Novex. So when you want the most effective painkiller for sinus pain, Novex is the one to choose.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the advertisement’s argument?

Options :

A : Some competing brands of painkillers are intended to reduce other kinds of pain in addition to sinus pain.

B : Many hospitals that do not usually use Novex will do so for those patients who cannot tolerate the drug the hospitals usually use.

C : Many drug manufacturers increase sales of their products to hospitals by selling these products to the hospitals at the lowest price the manufacturers can afford

D : Unlike some competing brands of painkillers, Novex is available from pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription

E : In clinical trials Novex has been found more effective than competing brands of painkillers that have been on the market longer than Novex.

Answer: D

Question 3

Options :

A : 3

B : 5

C :

D :

E :

Answer: A

Question 4

The number of bunnies in Peter’s yard increases by 4 times every week. How many weeks will it take for the number of bunnies to be divisible by 8 assuming that he started out with 3 bunnies?

Options :

A : 1

B : 2

C : 3

D : 4

E : Never

Answer: B

Question 5

In the industrialized nations, the last century has witnessed a shortening of the average workday from twelve

hours or longer to less than eight hours. Mindful of this enormous increase in leisure time over the past century,

many people assume that the same trend has obtained throughout history, and that, therefore, prehistoric

humans must have labored incessantly for their very survival.

We cannot, of course, directly test this assumption. However, a study of primitive peoples of today suggests a

different conclusion. The Mbuti of central Africa, for instance, spend only a few hours each day in hunting,

gathering, and tending to other economic necessities. The rest of their time is spent as they choose. The

implication is that the short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies. Rather, both the extended

workday of 1880 and the shorter workday of today are products of different stages of the continuing process of

industrialization.

Which of the following inferences about industrialization is best supported by the passage above?

Options :

A : People in advanced industrialized societies have more leisure time than those in no industrialized societies

B : An average workday of twelve hours or more is peculiar to economies in the early stages of industrialization.

C : Industrialization involves a trade-off between tedious, monotonous jobs and the benefits of increased leisure.

D : It is likely that the extended workday of an industrializing country will eventually be shortened.

E : As industrialization progresses, people tend to look for self-fulfillment in leisure rather than work.

Answer: D