GRE Preparation Kit 6 - Section 6

[Samuel]

SECTION 6

Time –30 minutes

25 Questions

Questions 1-7

A professor of economics is writing a textbook that will consist of eight chapters, numbered consecutively from 1 through 8, each of which will explain exactly one of eight subjects

3. If S is explained in an earlier chapter than N is explained, which of the following must be true?
    (A) N is explained in chapter 7.
    (B) O is explained in chapter 8.
    (C) X is explained in chapter 3.
    (D) Y is explained in chapter 2.
    (E) Z is explained in chapter 1.

4. If N is explained in the chapter immediately preceding the chapter in which Z is explained, which of the following could be
    explained in chapter 5?
    (A) N
    (B) O
    (C) S
    (D) T
    (E) X

5. If T is not explained in chapter 5, which of the following must be true?
    (A) N is explained in chapter 3.
    (B) O is explained in chapter 8.
    (C) S is explained in chapter 7.
    (D) X is explained in chapter 2.
    (E) Y is explained in chapter 4.

6. O can be explained in any of the following chapters EXCEPT
   (A) 2
   (B) 3
   (C) 4
   (D) 5
   (E) 7

7. If Y is explained in the chapter immediately preceding the chapter in which O is explained, which of the following must be
    explained in chapter 5?
    (A) N
    (B) T
    (C) X
    (D) Y
    (E) Z

9. The claim that Civenia's antismoking television advertising campaign contributed significantly to the steep decline in
    cigarette purchases in that province during 1991 is best supported if which of the following has been true about the   
    province of Halbernia from the beginning of 1991?
    (A) It kept its cigarette tax at the 1990 level and instituted an antismoking television advertising campaign similar to
          Civenia's.
    (B) It kept its cigarette tax at the 1990 level and did not institute an antismoking television advertising campaign.
    (C) It rescinded the 1990 cigarette tax increase and did not institute an antismoking television advertising campaign.
    (D) It eliminated all cigarette taxes and did not institute an antismoking television advertising campaign.
    (E) It increased its cigarette tax by an additional 40 percent over the 1990 level and instituted an antismoking television
         advertising campaign similar to Civenia's.

10. Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why cigarette purchases in Civenia declined more slowly after the
      completion of the television antismoking advertising campaign than they did before the campaign began?
      (A) Laws restricting smoking in public places in Civenia went into effect at the beginning of 1992.
      (B) Most of those smokers in Civenia who were likely to quit or cut down on smoking had done so by the beginning of
            1992.
      (C) At the beginning of 1992, health insurance companies in Civenia offered lower rates to nonsmoking residents than to
            those who smoked.
      (D) Cigarette companies increased their prices to Civenia distributors at the beginning of 1992 to offset the decrease in
            the number of packs sold.
      (E) Some cigarette companies withdrew their advertisements from Civenia newspapers and magazines at the beginning
            of 1992.

A real estate agent will show exactly five apartments, one after another, in a single afternoon. The apartments will be selected from among four large apartments— G, H, J, and K— and three small apartments— P, Q and R. The agent will show three large apartments and two small apartments. The agent's selection of apartments and the order in which they will be shown are constrained as follows
(C) More members of party P than members of Party Q are selected.
(D) More members of party Q than members of party R are selected.
(E) More women than members of party Q are selected.

18. If more women than men are selected, which of the following must be true?
      (A) The man belonging to party R is selected
      (B) At least one of the men belonging to party Q is selected.
      (C) Members of party Q outnumber members of party P on the committee.
      (D) Members of party P outnumber members of party Q on the committee.
      (E) There are equal numbers of members of party P and members of party Q on the committee.

19. Which of the following can be true?
      (A) All of the members of party P are selected.
      (B) The only members of party P who are selected are men.
      (C) The only members of party P who are selected are women.
      (D) The only nominees selected who are not members of party P are men.
      (E) The only nominees selected who are not members of party P are women.

20. Which of the following must be true?
      (A) Exactly four women are selected.
      (B) Exactly four men are selected.
      (C) At least one nominee belonging to party R is selected.
      (D) At least three of the nominees belonging to party P are selected.
      (E) All three of the nominees belonging to party Q are selected.

21. If one of the people not selected is the woman belonging to party Q, which of the following must be true?
      (A) A man belonging to party P is not selected.
      (B) A man belonging to party Q is not selected.
      (C) The man belonging to party R is not selected.
      (D) A woman belonging to party P is not selected.
      (E) The woman belonging to party R is not selected.

22. If members of party Q outnumber members of party P on the committee, which of the following can be true?
      (A) The man belonging to party R is not selected.
      (B) The woman belonging to party R is not selected.
      (C) Both of the men belonging to party P are selected.
      (D) All of the women who were nominated are selected.
      (E) All of the men who were nominated are selected.

23. In a recent film set in seventeenth-century Europe, the hero is seen doing the crawl, a swimming stroke not known in
      Europe before the 1920's.However, since moviegoers obviously are not experts in the history of swimming strokes, for 
      most of the film's audiences this blunder clearly cannot have interfered with whatever sense of historical authenticity the
      film otherwise achieved. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument given?
      (A) The film was widely praised for being historically plausible, even though it portrayed many events that were not
            historically attested.
      (B) The scene that shows the film's hero doing the crawl is a rescue scene pivotal to the film's action, and parts of it are
            even shown a second time, in a flashback.
      (C) Makers of historical films, even of those set as recently as the nineteenth century, routinely strike compromises
            between historical authenticity and the need to keep their material accessible to a modern audience, as in the actors'
            speech patterns.
      (D) The crawl that European swimmers used in the 1920's was much less efficient and more awkward-looking than the
            crawl that is currently taught.
      (E) A slightly earlier film featuring an eighteenth century sea battle in Europe was ridiculed in numerous popular reviews
            for the historical lapse of showing a sailor doing the crawl in swimming to safety.