Though the Bluestockings were trailblazers when compared with the salonnieres, they were not femi- nists. They were too traditional, too hemmed in by their generation to demand social and political rights. Nonetheless, in their desire for education, their will- ingness to go beyond the confines of the salon in pursuing their interests, and their championing of unity among women, the Bluestockings began the process of questioning women's role in society.
17. Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?
(A) The establishment of literary salons was a response to reformers' demands for social rights for women.
(B) Literary salons were originally intended to be a meeting ground for intellectuals of both sexes, but eventually became social gatherings with little educational value.
(C) In England, as in France, the general pre- judice against higher education for women limited women's function in literary salons to a primarily social one.
(D) The literary salons provided a sounding board for French and English women who called for access to all the educa- tional institutions in their societies on an equal basis with men.
(E) For women, who did not have access to higher education as men did, literary salons provided an alternate route to learning and a challenge to some of society's basic assumptions about women.
18. According to the passage, a significant distinc- tion between the salonnieres and Bluestockings was in the way each group regarded which of the following?
(A) The value of acquiring knowledge
(B) The role of pleasure in the activities of the literary salon
(C) The desirability of a complete break with societal traditions
(D) The inclusion of women of different back- grounds in the salons
(E) The attainment of full social and political equality with men
19. It is possible that the distance by road from X to Y is unequal to the distance by road from
(A) T to U (B) U to V (C) U to W
(D) X to Z (E) Y to Z
20. Which of the following is a pair of towns connected by two routes by road that have no stretch of road in common?
(A) T and U (B) U and V (C) V and W
(D) W and X (E) X and Y
21. If a projected road from T to Y were built, then the shortest distance by road from W to X would be the same as the shortest distance by road from Z to
(A) T (B) U (C) V (D) X (E) Y
22. If two projected roads were built, one from T directly to Y and one from V directly to Z, then each of the following would be a complete list of the towns lying along one of the routes that a traveler going by road from U to X could select EXCEPT
(A) T, Y (B) T, Z (C) V, Z (D) T, Y, Z
(E) V, Z, Y
23. If an investment has produced no profit, tax relief predicated on having made the investment is no help; any corporate manager who fears that a new asset will not make money is scarcely comforted by promises of reductions in taxes the corporation will not owe.
Which of the following is the most reliable inference to draw from the passage above?
(A) An effective way to discourage unprofitable corporate investment is to predicate tax relief on the making of profitable investments.
(B) Corporate managers are likely to ignore tax considerations in deciding to invest in assets they believe will be profitable.
(C) The promise of tax benefits for making new investments will not in and of itself stim- ulate new investment.
(D) The less importance a corporate manager attaches to tax considerations, the more likely it is that the manager will accu- rately predict the profitability of an investment.
(E) The critical factor in a corporate investment decision is likely to be a corporate manager's emotional response to perceived business conditions.
24. The results of a recent poll in the United
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