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All of the following, if true, would weaken the passage’s claims about the hallucinatory tribal imagination EXCEPT that:
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All of the following, if true, would weaken the passage’s claims about the hallucinatory tribal imagination EXCEPT that:
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Which one of the following best explains why tribals in India worship their dead ancestors?
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Non-human living forms exhibit human emotions in tribal narratives because tribal narratives:
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On the basis of the passage, which one of the following explains the main difference between imagination and memory?
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The goal of the author over the course of this passage is to:
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What relation does the “communication problem” mentioned in paragraph 2 have to the questions that the author recounts at the beginning of the passage?
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From the context in which it is placed, the phrase “sui generis” in paragraph 3 suggests which one of the following?
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The mention of Stravinsky’s description of music in the first paragraph does all the following EXCEPT:
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It can be inferred from the passage that it is likely South America had a slightly better language survival rate than North America for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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Which one of the following hypothetical scenarios, if true, would most strongly undermine the central ideas of the passage?
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In the context of the passage, which one of the following hypothetical scenarios, if true, is NOT an example of the kind of loss that occurs when a language becomes extinct?
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The author believes that a liberal arts education combined with participation in language preservation empower students in all of the following ways EXCEPT that they will
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The author sees the rise of Netflix in Europe as:
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Which one of the following research findings would weaken the author's conclusion in the final paragraph?
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Based on information provided in the passage, all of the following are true, EXCEPT:
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Based only on information provided in the passage, which one of the following hypothetical Netflix shows would be most successful with audiences across the EU?
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All of the following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT:
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The author criticises scholars who are not geographers for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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All of the following are advanced by the author as reasons why non-geographers disregard geographic influences on human phenomena EXCEPT their:
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The examples of the Inuit and Aboriginal Australians are offered in the passage to show
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Which one of the following has NOT contributed to the growing wolf population in Lozère?
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The inhabitants of Lozère have to grapple with all of the following problems, EXCEPT:
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The author presents a possible economic solution to an existing issue facing Lozère that takes into account the divergent and competing interests of:
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Which one of the following statements, if true, would weaken the author's claims?
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The author of the passage mentions Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" to:
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The author mentions Tanzania's Hadza community to illustrate:
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The author of the passage criticises Sahlins's essay for its:
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We can infer that Sahlins's main goal in writing his essay was to:
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Which one of the following is not a valid inference from the passage?
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Which one of the following sets of words/phrases best encapsulates the issues discussed in the passage?
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The author notes that, "At the start of the twentieth century, Americans were predominately a rural population, but by the century's mid-point most lived in urban areas." Which one of the following statements, if true, does not contradict this statement?
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A fundamental conclusion by the author is that:
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In the context of the passage, all of the following statements are true EXCЕРТ:
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It can be inferred from the passage that the author is not likely to support the view that:
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Which one of the following styles of research is most similar to the Orientalist scholars' method of understanding Indian history and culture?
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It can be inferred from the passage that to gain a more accurate view of a nation's history and culture, scholars should do all of the following EXCEPT:
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In this passage, the author is making the claim that:
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The author gives all of the following reasons for why marginalised people are systematically discriminated against in technology-related interventions EXCEPT
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All of the following are examples of the negative outcomes of focusing on technical ideals in the medical sphere EXCEPT the:
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We can infer that the author would approve of a more evolved engineering pedagogy that includes all of the following EXCEPT:
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Which one of the following sets of terms best serves as keywords to the passage?
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Based on the passage, which one of the following statements is a valid argument about the emergence of music/musicking?
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Which one of the following statements, if true, would weaken the author's claim that humans are musicking creatures?
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"Think beyond all the qualifications that might trail after this bald statement " In the context of the passage, what is the author trying to communicate in this quoted extract?
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"In order to confirm their abnormal status, many of the Undead were often accorded attributes, which defied the natural order of things." Which one of the following best expresses the claim made in this statement?
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All of the following statements, if false, could be seen as being in accordance with the passage, EXCEPT:
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Which one of the following observations is a valid conclusion to draw from the statement, "From out of the primal darkness of Mankind's earliest years, come whispers of eerie creatures, not quite alive (or alive in a way which we can understand), yet not quite dead either."?
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Which one of the following statements best describes what the passage is about?
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Which one of the following scenarios is unlikely to follow from the arguments in the passage?
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The value that the modern West assigns to "an unassailable original" has resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:
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Based on the passage, which one of the following copies would a Chinese museum be unlikely to consider as having less value than the original?
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Which one of the following statements does not correctly express the similarity between the Ise Grand Shrine and the cathedral of Freiburg Minster?
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On the basis of the information in the passage, all of the following are true about the spiritual/material dichotomy of Indian nationalism EXCEPT that it:
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Which one of the following explains the "contradictory pulls" on Indian nationalism?
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Which one of the following, if true, would weaken the author's claims in the passage?
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Which one of the following best describes the liberal perception of Indian nationalism?
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The author mentions the Welsh language to show that:
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From the passage, we can infer that the author is in favour of:
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We can infer all of the following about indigenous languages from the passage EXCEPT that.
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The author lists all of the following as reasons for the decline or disappearance of a language EXCEPT
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According to this book review, A Thirst for Empire says that, in addition to "profit-motivated marketers", tea drinking was promoted in Britain by all of the following EXCEPT:
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This book review argues that, according to Rappaport, tea is unlike other "morality" products because it:
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The author of this book review is LEAST likely to support the view that:
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Today, “conflating consumption with virtue” can be seen in the marketing of:
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On the basis of the passage, which one of the following worldviews can be inferred to be closest to that of the Classic Maya?
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Which one of the following, if true, would not undermine the democratising potential of the Classic Maya worldview?
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Which one of the following best explains the "additional complexity" that the example of the incense burner illustrates regarding personhood for the Classic Maya?
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Which one of the following, if true about the Classic Maya, would invalidate the purpose of the iPhone example in the passage?
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The author ascribes the rise in piracy today to all of the following factors EXCEPT:
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"Why toil away as a starving peasant in the 16th century when a successful pirate made up to £4,000 on each raid?" In this sentence, the author's tone can best be described as being:
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"A more eclectic history might have included the conquistadors, Vasco da Gama and the East India Company. But Lehr sticks to the disorganised small fry." From this statement we can infer that the author believes that:
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We can deduce that the author believes that piracy can best be controlled in the longrun:
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"No amount of social analysis can account fully for the existence of Michelangelo or Leonardo." In light of the passage, which one of the following interpretations of this sentence is the most accurate?
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All of the following statements may be considered valid inferences from the passage, EXCEPT:
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"Seeing operates on the foundation of covenants with images that establish the conditions for meaningful visual experience." In light of the passage, which one of the following statements best conveys the meaning of this sentence?
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Which set of keywords below most closely captures the arguments of the passage?
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Which one of the following best describes the word "epiphenomena" in the last sentence of the passage?
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The author’s critics would argue that:
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A French ethnographer decides to study the culture of a Nigerian tribe. Which of the following is most likely to be the view of the author of the passage?
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According to the passage, which of the following is not responsible for language's ability to change us?
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Which of the following can be inferred from the author's claim, "Which way is Oriental?"
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We can infer that Calthorpe's statement "still jars" with most people because most people:
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From the passage it can be inferred that cities are good places to live in for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that they:
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In the context of the passage, the author refers to Manaus in order to:
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According to the passage, squatter cities are environment-friendly for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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Which one of the following statements would undermine the author's stand regarding the greenness of cities?
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The primary purpose of the reference to William Morris and his floral prints is to show:
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Which of the following statements about folk revivalism of the 1940s and 1960s cannot be inferred from the passage?
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The author says that folk "may often appear a cosy, fossilised form" because:
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All of the following are causes for plurality and diversity within the British folk tradition EXCEPT:
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At a conference on folk forms, the author of the passage is least likely to agree with which one of the following views?
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Which one of the following comes closest in meaning to the author's understanding of topophilia?
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The word "topophobia" in the passage is used:
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Which one of the following best captures the meaning of the statement, "Topophilia is difficult to design for and impossible to quantify."?
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In the last paragraph, the author uses the example of "Residents of upscale residential developments" to illustrate the:
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Which of the following statements, if true, could be seen as not contradicting the arguments in the passage?
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In the author's view, cities promote human creativity for all the following reasons EXCEPT that they
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The author uses 'ironic' in the third paragraph to point out that
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The central idea of this passage is that
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Jane Jacobs believed that cities that are more creative
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The 1968 study is used here to show that
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The author's conclusions about the most 'creative cities' in the US (paragraph 6) are based on his assumption that
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Which one of the following best describes what the passage is trying to do?
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Early maps did NOT put north at the top for all the following reasons EXCEPT
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According to the passage, early Chinese maps placed north at the top because Options:
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It can be inferred from the passage that European explorers like Columbus and Megellan Options:
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Which one of the following about the northern orientation of modern maps is asserted in the passage?
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The role of natural phenomena in influencing map-making conventions is seen most clearly in
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The central idea of this passage is that:
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Why does the author say in paragraph 2, 'the massive distribution centers Amazon has opened across the country, often not too far from malls the company helped shutter'?
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In paragraph 1, the phrase "real estate developers once stumbled over themselves to court" suggests that they
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The author calls the mall an ecosystem unto itself because
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Why does the author say that the mall has been America's public square?
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The author describes 'Perfume clouds in the department stores' in order to