Blue Book Test #8 - Questions

waffle
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:24:03 +0000

I know this is quite a bit but please respond, at least to some:

Section 2:

[Something of] a phenomenon [in] the entertainment world, political satirists…[No Error]


I put that Something of was incorrect but it was no error. I’m confused; I thought something of doesn’t agree in number with “political satirists.” I thought that it was wrong since something is singular and satirists is plural. Explanation?

I put that it should be deleted since it adds info. Why does it merely have to be changed?


Section 4:

One of the few sentence completions I’ve gotten wrong. Doesn’t husbandry mean agriculture. I looked up extripation and saw that it can’t work but why does husbandry?
I had D and A is correct. Why? I think I may have gotten this if I read two sentences before the citation. I’ve usually been reading the sentences before and after the citation when going through these questions. Should I go for two before?
Why A not B?
Why A not E?


Section 5:

Why E?


Section 6:

I got this one right, but I wasn’t quite sure. I just want to make sure that it is disclosure because that paraphrases announcement. However, why can it not be instance?
This one was probably the one I deliberated on the longest. Why is it B and not C? I thought that B was an inference.
Got it right, but educated guess: Why E and not B
Why does visited mean afflicted? I thought that was a trap since afflicted is mentioned later so I put haunted.


Section 8:

16: I put B but it is E. I plugged in numbers so why isn’t it E?

Section 9:

I got it right, but if I knew what prospectus meant I probably wouldn’t have been able to choose between that and manifesto. They seem similar, so what makes them different?
Why E not A? Isn’t E not stated? Then again neither is A, but usual is paraphrased.


Section 10:

Why E not D? I thought nevertheless was needed since they missed their stop and laughed about it but would still nevertheless have to find their way somewhere in spite of their jubilation.


Also just as a general question, for the both…and construction, is exact parallelism needed? For example, would this be wrong:

…both in China and Italy… --------- since there is no in before Italy?

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