1. Scholars' sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of "the state" at the time when
political science became an academic ?eld quite naturally led to striving for a
correspondingly ________ mode of study.
A. thorough
B. distinctive
C. dependable
D. scienti?c
E. dynamic
2. The Muses are ________ deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who
weary of their charms.
A. rueful
B. ingenuous
C. solicitous
D. vindictive
E. dispassionate
3. The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were ________
their few and simple desires.
A. simultaneous with
B. commensurate with
C. substantiated by
D. circumscribed by
E. ruined by
4. Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the ________
of society, the conventionality of academe.
A. ethos
B. idealism
C. romance
D. paradoxes
E. commonplaces
5. Heavily perfumed white ?owers, such as gardenias, were favorites with collectors in the
eighteenth century, when ________ was valued much more highly than it is today.
A. scent
B. beauty
C. elegance
D. color
E. variety
6. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on
the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of quali?ed young people would be
________ further education.
A. entitled to
B. striving for
C. deprived of
D. uninterested in
E. participating in
7. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective
attempt to ________ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
A. extrapolate
B. transcribe
C. complicate
D. amplify
E. manage?
8. There is perhaps some truth in that waggish old de?nition of a scholar—a siren that calls
attention to a fog without doing anything to ________ it.
A. describe
B. cause
C. analyze
D. dispel
E. thicken
9. The newborn human infant is not a passive ?gure, nor an active one, but what might be
called an actively ________ one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.
A. adaptive
B. selective
C. inquisitive
D. receptive
E. intuitive
10. It is to the novelist's credit that all of the episodes in her novel are presented realistically,
without any ________ or playful supernatural tricks.
A. elucidation
B. discrimination
C. artlessness
D. authenticity
E. whimsy