1. By divesting himself of all regalities, the former king----the consideration that customarily protects monarchs.
(A) merited (B) forfeited (C) debased
(D) concealed (E) extended
2. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from----, relating the----of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.
(A) age.. ancestry
(B) classification.. appearance
(C) size.. movement (D) structure.. behavior
(E) location.. habitat
3. The sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was----by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
(A) banal (B) heretical (C) unproven
(D) complex (E) superficial
4. Industrialists seized economic power only after industry had----agriculture as the preeminent form of production; previously such power had
----land ownership.
(A) sabotaged.. threatened
(B) overtaken.. produced
(C) toppled.. culminated in
(D) joined.. relied on
(E) supplanted.. resided in
5. Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their----.
(A) insight (B) obstinacy (C) introspection
(D) tolerance (E) credulity
6. No longer----by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual----for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
(A) satisfied.. reasons
(B) sustained.. substitutes
(C) reassured.. justifications
(D) hampered.. equivalents
(E) restricted.. parallels
7. People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be----; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of----.
(A) depraved.. hesitation
(B) cruel.. effortlessness
(C) wicked.. indolence
(D) unjust.. boredom
(E) iniquitous.. impiety
8. SKELETON: ANIMAL::
(A) ivory: piano (B) peel: fruit (C) ore: mine
(D) mast: ship (E) framing: building
9. OUTSKIRTS: TOWN::
(A) rung: ladder (B) trunk: tree
(C) water: goblet (D) margin: page
(E) hangar: airplane
10. AMORPHOUSNESS: DEFINITION::
(A) lassitude: energy
(B) spontaneity: awareness
(C) angularity: intricacy
(D) rectitude: drabness
(E) precision: uniformity
11. COLLUSION: CONSPIRATORS::
(A) conclusion: messengers
(B) revision: correspondents
(C) identification: arbitrators
(D) attribution: interpreters
(E) cooperation: partners
12. DIVERT: SHUNT::
(A) file: collate (B) collide: dent
(C) guess: calibrate (D) retard: brake
(E) inspect: magnify
13. EQUIVOCATE: COMMITMENT::
(A) procrastinate: action
(B) implicate: exposition
(C) expostulate: confusion
(D) corroborate: falsification
(E) fabricate: explanation
14. ARMADA: VEHICLES::
(A) drill: recruits (B) planning: logistics
(C) infantry: cavalry (D) fusillade: projectiles
(E) supply: munitions
15. LACONIC: SPEECH::
(A) believable: excuse
(B) unyielding: attitude
(C) austere: design
(D) somber: procession
(E) gradual: transition
16. GROW: BURGEON::
(A) beat: palpitate (B) transport: enrapture
(C) flourish: thrive (D) rot: decay
(E) evolve: multiply
The belief that art originates in intuitive rather than rational faculties was worked out historically and phi- losophically in the somewhat wearisome volumes of Benedetto Croce, who is usually considered the orig- inator of a new aesthetic. Croce was, in fact, express- ing a very old idea. Long before the Romantics stressed intuition and self-expression, the frenzy of inspiration was regarded as fundamental to art, but philosophers had always assumed it must be controlled by law and by the intellectual power of putting things into harmonious order. This general philosophic con- cept of art was supported by technical necessities. It was necessary to master certain laws and to use intel- lect in order to build Gothic cathedrals, or set up the stained glass windows of Chartres. When this bracing element of craftsmanship ceased to dominat
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