Sentence Completion
The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history, consequently any historical writing that does not take cognizance of_________ facts is_________flawed.
- A. ecological..marginally
- B. demographic..intrinsically
- C. cultural..substantively
- D. psychological..philosophically
- E. political..demonstratively
Antonyms
PERSEVERE
- A. Take Away
- B. Put into
- C. Send out
- D. Give up
- E. Bring forward
Analogies
EVAPORATE:VAPOUR
- A. petrify:stone
- B. centrifuge:liquid
- C. saturate:fluid
- D. corrode:acid
- E. incinerate:fire
Reading Comprehension
In his 1976 study of slavery in the US, Herbert Gutman, like Fogel, Engerman, And Genovese, has rightly stressed the slaves' achievements. But unlike these historians......(rest of the passage) ........In sum, gut man's study is significant because it offers a closely reasoned and original explanation of some of the slaves' achievements, one that correctly emphasizes the resources that slaves themselves possessed.
Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage, based on its content?
- A. The influence of Herbert Gutman on Historians of Slavery in the US
- B. Gutman's explanation of how slaves could maintain a cultural Heritage and develop a communal consciousness
- C. Slavery in the US: New Controversy about an old subject
- D. The Black heritage of Folklore, Music, and Religious Expression: It's growing influence
- E. The Black family and extended kinship structure: How they were important for the freed slave
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