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GRE-Test – Graduate Record Examination Test: Verbal, Quantitative, Analytical Writing

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Question 7 (Verbal Reasoning)

The spacecraft’s considerable heft forces an unusually ___________ route that meanders through the solar system and depends on the gravitational pull of three heavenly bodies. (Choose two.)

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    predetermined
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    circuitous
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    indirect
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    truncated
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    shortened
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    sequential
Question 8 (Verbal Reasoning)

In his splendid new biography of Flaubert, Frederick Brown deftly dismantles the most durable myth concerning the novelist – that Flaubert was miraculously transformed into a committed realist with the writing of Madame Bovary. Robert Baldick offers one version of the myth: “In his early works ... Flaubert tended to give free rein to his flamboyant imagination, but on the advice of his friends he later disciplined his romantic exuberance in an attempt to achieve total objectivity and a harmonious prose style.” The only problem with this account is that it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Flaubert followed the realism of Madame Bovary with the fantastical Salammbô, and paired “A Simple Heart” with his hothouse fantasy, “Hérodias.”

In the context of the passage, the reference to Baldick’s “version” serves to (Choose all that apply.)

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    flesh out 2 conventional view regarding Flaubert
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    present a framework for further research into Flaubert
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    offer a useful corrective to Brown’s approach to Flaubert
Question 9 (Verbal Reasoning)

The _________ of governmental subsidies to obscure airports that are rarely used underscores the political difficulties of cutting funds from even the most unnecessary projects. (Choose two.)

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    paucity
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    effectiveness
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    durability
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    persistence
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    adequacy
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    dearth