virology

Question: As part of the Women’s Health Study, researchers investigated the role of systemic inflammation in predicting cardiovascular disease in women (N Engl J Med. 2002;347[20]:1557-1565). Researchers used a prospective study design with a large sample size. Blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) were measured at baseline and women were followed for an average of 8 years. The following table shows the relative risk estimates of cardiovascular event (heart attack or stroke) within 5 years by quintile of CRP level for the 30,000 women. The first quintile is used as the reference category.  1 0.49 mg/dL Relative Risk Number of women  1.0 6000  2 >0.49-1.08 mg/dL 1.8 6000  Quintile of CRP Level 3 >1.08-2.09 mg/dL 2.3 6000  4 >2.09-4.19 mg/dL 3.2 6000  5 >4.19 mg/dL 4.5 6000  Based on the relative risk data above, one can conclude:

Choices:
- There is no risk of heart attack/stroke for women with CRP levels in the first quintile.
- Decreasing CRP level appears to increase the risk of heart attack/stroke.
- Increasing CRP level appears to increase the risk of heart attack/stroke.
- There appears to be no association between CRP levels and heart attack/stroke.


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these names has never belonged to a Pope?

Choices:
- Leo
- Lando
- Linus
- Lawrence


college_medicine

Question: All of the following are example of sensory, or neural, adaptation EXCEPT:

Choices:
- After putting on a shirt, you eventually no longer feel the sensation of the fabric on your back.
- After first walking into a crowded room, you no longer are distracted by the buzz of conversation around you.
- After first walking outside on a sunny day, you no longer are blinded by the initial brightness of the light.
- After first walking into an anatomy lab, you no longer notice the smell of formaldehyde.


formal_logic

Question:
 Use the following key to translate the given formula of PL to natural, English sentences.
A: Marina reads a Percy Jackson book.
B: Izzy plays Minecraft.
C: Emily stops working.
D: Russell makes dinner.
E: Ashleigh stops by.
~(A ⊃ B) • (B ⊃ ~E)

Choices:
- It's not the case that Marina's reading a Percy Jackson book entails that Izzy plays Minecraft, but Izzy's playing Minecraft does entail that Ashleigh doesn't stop by.
- If Marina doesn't read a Percy Jackson book, then Izzy plays Minecraft, which entails that Ashleigh doesn't stop by.
- Marina's reading a Percy Jackson book does not entail that Izzy plays Minecraft, but Izzy plays Minecraft provided that Ashleigh doesn't stop by.
- It's not true that Marina reads a Percy Jackson book only when Izzy plays Minecraft, but Izzy plays Minecraft only when Ashleigh stops by.


college_computer_science

Question: Which of the following characteristics of a programming language is best specified using a context-free grammar?

Choices:
- Identifier length
- Maximum level of nesting
- Operator precedence
- Type compatibility


human_aging

Question: Which of the following groups of Americans have the lowest rate of alcohol abuse?

Choices:
- African-American
- White
- Native-American
- Asian-American


human_aging

Question: The retirement phase that occurs least frequently is the ____ phase

Choices:
- Disenchantment
- Honeymoon
- Retirement routine
- Preretirement


public_relations

Question: Early email was developed in which decade?

Choices:
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s


professional_law

Question: A defendant is on trial for false pretenses. He is charged with selling worthless stock in a dummy corporation to unwitting investors. The defendant is alleged to have masterminded a scheme wherein he set up a nonexistent corporation that never conducted business. The victims were sent prospectuses containing false financial data, which induced them to purchase stock in the phony corporation. At trial, the prosecution seeks to introduce into evidence proof that the defendant had set up 10 other so-called dummy corporations that never existed. This evidence is

Choices:
- admissible, to show defendant's character trait for dishonesty.
- admissible, to show his intent to defraud.
- inadmissible, because character cannot be proved by specific instances of misconduct.
- inadmissible, because the evidence is not relevant.


college_computer_science

Question:
In multiprogrammed systems it is advantageous if some programs such as editors and compilers can be shared by several users. Which of the following must be true of multiprogrammed systems in order that a single copy of a program can be shared by several users?
I. The program is a macro.
II. The program is recursive.
III. The program is reentrant.

Choices:
- I only
- II only
- III only
- II and III only


econometrics

Question: If a series, y, follows a random walk with drift b, what is the optimal one-step ahead forecast of the change in y?

Choices:
- The current value of y
- Zero
- One
- The average value of the change in y over the in-sample period


conceptual_physics

Question: Polarization is a property of

Choices:
- transverse waves
- longitudinal waves
- all waves
- None of these


astronomy

Question: What defines the habitable zone around a star?

Choices:
- the region around a star where liquid water can potentially exist on planetary surfaces
- the region around a star where humans can survive
- the region around a star where the ultraviolet radiation does not destroy organisms on a planetary surface
- the region around a star where life exists


anatomy

Question: In which of the following positions does a patient lie face down?

Choices:
- Dorsal
- Erect
- Lateral
- Prone


econometrics

Question: Suppose that the Durbin Watson test is applied to a regression containing two explanatory variables plus a constant with 50 data points. The test statistic takes a value of 1.53. What is the appropriate conclusion?

Choices:
- Residuals appear to be positively autocorrelated
- Residuals appear to be negatively autocorrelated
- Residuals appear not to be autocorrelated
- The test result is inconclusive


professional_accounting

Question: Which of the following should a practitioner perform as part of an engagement for agreed-upon procedures in accordance with Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements?

Choices:
- Issue a report on findings based on specified procedures performed.
- Assess whether the procedures meet the needs of the parties.
- Express negative assurance on findings of work performed.
- Report the differences between agreed-upon and audit procedures.


virology

Question: What has so far prevented polio being eradicated from the world?

Choices:
- Inability to vaccinate in some countries
- Poor quality (unsafe) vaccines
- Genetic variation
- Expense


formal_logic

Question: Select the best translation into predicate logic: No senior graduates without a major.

Choices:
- (∀x)(Sx ⊃ ~Gx)
- ~(∀x)(Sx ⊃ Gx)
- (∀x)( ~Sx ⊃ ~Gx)
- (∀x) ~(Sx ⊃ ~Gx)


global_facts

Question: What is the biggest cause of death in children under five years old (as of 2017)?

Choices:
- Lower respiratory infections
- Preterm birth complications
- Diarrheal diseases
- Malaria


miscellaneous

Question: Animals in which of the following groups may have a backbone and a spinal cord?

Choices:
- Mollusks
- Chordates
- Invertebrates
- Echinoderms


college_mathematics

Question: Let S be the subset of R^2 consisting of all points (x, y) in the unit square [0, 1] × [0, 1] for which x or y, or both, are irrational. With respect to the standard topology on R^2, S is

Choices:
- closed
- open
- connected
- totally disconnected


clinical_knowledge

Question: Women's world record performances have improved rapidly in recent years mainly because:

Choices:
- women have evolved a greater muscle mass.
- women can now run faster than men.
- women have started training at an earlier age.
- more women are now engaged in sport.


professional_accounting

Question: Greene is the sole shareholder of Seagull, a calendar-year S corporation. Greene's basis at the beginning of the year is $15,000. Seagull reported an ordinary loss of $5,000 and $2,000 of municipal bond interest for the year. Seagull distributed cash of $6,000 to Greene on November 1. What is Greene's basis in Seagull at the end of the year?

Choices:
- $4,000
- $6,000
- $14,000
- $15,000


miscellaneous

Question: What city is known as 'the rubber capital of the world'?

Choices:
- Omaha Nebraska
- Rockford Illinois
- Grand Rapids Michigan
- Akron Ohio


high_school_geography

Question: An earlier boundary formed before meticulous geographic knowledge and mapping was available is known as

Choices:
- an antecedent boundary.
- a geometric boundary.
- a relict boundary.
- a subsequent boundary.


college_medicine

Question: Mutations are errors in DNA that:

Choices:
- are always harmful.
- only occur in the presence of carcinogens.
- increase tumour growth.
- occur spontaneously at a low rate.


clinical_knowledge

Question: Which of the following best describes nociceptive pain?

Choices:
- Pain resulting from actual or potential tissue damage, which causes the release of chemical mediators that stimulate nerve fibres to initiate pain signals to the brain.
- Pain resulting from pressure upon a nerve or group of nerves.
- A disorder of a specific nerve or group of nerves resulting in the release of abnormal pain signals.
- Pain resulting from a disorder of the central nervous system, i.e. following a cerebral vascular accident.


virology

Question: David Baltimore is a molecular biologist. What did he discover?

Choices:
- The structure of DNA
- X-ray crystallographic techniques
- The enzyme reverse transcriptase
- The anti HIV drug zidovudine


econometrics

Question:
Which of the following estimation techniques are available for the estimation of over-identified systems of simultaneous equations?

i) OLS

ii) ILS

iii) 2SLS

iv) IV

Choices:
- (iii) only
- (iii) and (iv) only
- (ii), (iii), and (iv) only
- (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)


machine_learning

Question: Suppose we would like to perform clustering on spatial data such as the geometrical locations of houses. We wish to produce clusters of many different sizes and shapes. Which of the following methods is the most appropriate?

Choices:
- Decision Trees
- Density-based clustering
- Model-based clustering
- K-means clustering


human_aging

Question: Which type of reaction time results in the biggest age differences?

Choices:
- Simple
- Choice
- Complex
- Elaborate


college_chemistry

Question: 23Na has an NMR frequency of 198.52 MHz in a 750 MHz NMR spectrometer. What is its magnetogyric ratio?

Choices:
- 101.1 x 10^7 T-1 s-1
- 26.75 x 10^7 T-1 s-1
- 7.081 x 10^7 T-1 s-1
- 0.9377 x 10^7 T-1 s-1


high_school_statistics

Question: A soft drink dispenser can be adjusted to deliver any fixed number of ounces. If the machine is operating with a standard deviation in delivery equal to 0.3 ounce, what should be the mean setting so that a 12-ounce cup will overflow less than 1% of the time? Assume a normal distribution for ounces delivered.

Choices:
- 12 - 0.99(0.3) ounces
- 12 - 2.326(0.3) ounces
- 12 - 2.576(0.3) ounces
- 12 + 2.326(0.3) ounces


business_ethics

Question: The state of being unable to make an informed, reasoned decision about a product purchase is known as?

Choices:
- Consumer inclusion
- Consumer competence
- Consumer exclusion
- Consumer vulnerability


electrical_engineering

Question: The moving coil-meters, damping is provided by

Choices:
- the aluminium frame of the coil.
- the coil spring attached to the moving.
- eddy current disk.
- damping vane in the airtight chamber.


high_school_physics

Question: An object of mass m1 experiences a linear, elastic collision with a stationary object of unknown mass. In addition to m1, what is the minimum necessary information that would allow you to determine the mass of the second object?

Choices:
- The final speed of object 1
- The initial speed of object 1
- The final speed of object 2
- Any 2 of the above values


professional_accounting

Question: What is the process by which products and services of a business entity are measured and evaluated relative to the best possible levels of performance?

Choices:
- Measuring the performance gap
- Standard measurement
- Benchmarking
- Variance management


machine_learning

Question: The model obtained by applying linear regression on the identified subset of features may differ from the model obtained at the end of the process of identifying the subset during

Choices:
- Best-subset selection
- Forward stepwise selection
- Forward stage wise selection
- All of the above


formal_logic

Question:
Construct a complete truth table for the following argument. Then, using the truth table, determine whether the argument is valid or invalid. If the argument is invalid, choose an option which presents a counterexample. (There may be other counterexamples as well.)
~(M ≡ ~N)
M / N

Choices:
- Valid
- Invalid. Counterexample when M and N are true
- Invalid. Counterexample when M is true and N is false
- Invalid. Counterexample when N is true and M is false


business_ethics

Question: _______ theory can be described as a code of conduct to which all rational beings should adhere. This contrasts with ________ morality which is the code of conduct adopted by a particular group or society.

Choices:
- Descriptive, Normative
- Normative, Instrumental
- Normative, Descriptive
- Ethical, Descriptive


astronomy

Question: What is the source of the material that causes meteor showers?

Choices:
- Near-Earth asteroids gradually disintegrate and spread out along their orbital path. When the Earth passes through the orbit of an asteroid we are bombarded by sand-sized particles which cause a meteor shower.
- Near-Earth asteroids disintegrate as they enter Earth's atmosphere creating hundreds of bright meteors that appear to radiate from a single location in the sky.
- The nuclei of comets disintigrate as they enter Earth's atmosphere creating hundreds of bright meteors that appear to radiate from a central location in the sky.
- The nuclei of comets gradually disintegrate and spread out along the comet's orbital path. When the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet we are bombarded by sand-sized particles which cause a meteor shower.


logical_fallacies

Question: When someone treats an imaginary concept as if it was something tangible that person might commit the fallacy of

Choices:
- Question begging epithets
- Misusing ambiguity
- Hypostatization
- Amphiboly


electrical_engineering

Question: Which of the following is the analogous quantity for mass element in force-voltage analogy?

Choices:
- Resistance.
- Inductance.
- Capacitance.
- All of the above.


anatomy

Question: A patient suffers a CVA in the area of the left internal capsule conveying motor neurons to the right leg. The patient's leg will exhibit

Choices:
- spastic paralysis.
- flaccid paralysis.
- tremor.
- hyporeflexia.


professional_accounting

Question: What is the present value of $10 received in two years’ time if the discount rate is 9%?

Choices:
- $9
- $11
- $8.26
- $8.42


professional_law

Question: A defendant was convicted of fraud after a jury trial in state court. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. The defendant timely moved for postconviction relief under the Sixth Amendment on the ground that his attorney had provided ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial judge, after a hearing, found that the attorney had performed deficiently by failing to raise a proper objection that would have resulted in exclusion of important prosecution evidence. What more, if anything, must the trial court find in order to sustain the defendant's Sixth Amendment claim?

Choices:
- Nothing more, because the unjustifiable failure to object to important prosecution evidence is structural error.
- That the attorney was court-appointed and not privately retained.
- That there is a reasonable probability that the trial's outcome would have been different if the attorney had objected.
- That there is clear and convincing evidence that the trial's outcome would have been different if the attorney had objected.


clinical_knowledge

Question: Measuring the blood pressure in an arm that is above the level of the heart will:

Choices:
- accurately estimate the blood pressure.
- overestimate the blood pressure.
- cause an auscultatory gap.
- underestimate the blood pressure.


high_school_chemistry

Question: When using the ideal gas law, standard conditions for temperature and pressure are

Choices:
- 0 K and 0 torr
- 25 °C and 1 atmosphere pressure
- 0 °C and 760 torr
- 0 °F and 1 atmosphere pressure


electrical_engineering

Question: Electric drive is becoming more and more popular because

Choices:
- all of below.
- it provide smooth and easy control.
- it is cheaper in cost.
- it is simple and reliable.


logical_fallacies

Question: If someone argues that something should be done in a certain way because that's the way it's always been done, that person has committed which of the following fallacies?

Choices:
- slippery slope
- appeal to tradition
- argument from authority
- ad nauseam


high_school_chemistry

Question: Fluorine has a normal boiling point of 85 K, and chlorine boils at 239 K. The Cl2 molecule is much larger than F2 (atomic radius is 99 pm for chlorine and is 64 pm for fluorine). Which is the best reason for the large difference in boiling points?

Choices:
- Chlorine has a higher dipole moment than fluorine.
- The intramolecular bonds in Cl2 are much weaker than those in F2.
- The Cl2 electron clouds are much more polarizable than the F2 electron clouds, resulting in much stronger London forces.
- The mass of chlorine is much greater than the mass of fluorine.


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following was a direct result of the First Opium War of 1839-1842?

Choices:
- The Chinese commissioner of trade in Canton (Guangzhou) banned the opium trade in that city.
- China was forced to open some of its ports to international trade.
- Chinese revolutionaries toppled the Qing dynasty.
- Chinese leaders set out to remake their economy along Western lines.


college_chemistry

Question: Predict the number of lines in the EPR spectrum of a solution of dimethylnitroxide (CH3)2NO• assuming the lines do not overlap.

Choices:
- 21
- 3
- 7
- 24


high_school_geography

Question: The largest exporter of agricultural goods in the world is

Choices:
- China.
- Mexico.
- Chile.
- the United States.


public_relations

Question: Early theories of mass communication suggested that audiences were passive recipients of media messages and thus vulnerable to manipulation. Which of the following best describes current thinking?

Choices:
- Audiences are more vulnerable and passive than ever before.
- Television viewing, in particular, creates increased activity in the right hemisphere of the brain.
- Active receivers are not uniformly affected by mass communication messages.
- Technology has led to increasingly passive recipients at the ends of message transmission systems.


high_school_physics

Question: Two traveling waves of equal frequency, one of amplitude 4 cm and the other of amplitude 6 cm, superimpose in a single medium. Which of the following best describes the displacement, D, of the resultant wave?

Choices:
- 2 cm ≤ D ≤ 10 cm
- D = 5 cm
- D = 10 cm
- 10 cm ≤ D ≤ 12 cm


logical_fallacies

Question: "The minor premise must affirm the antecedent or deny the consequent" is a validity requirement of which type of argument?

Choices:
- Toulmin
- Categorical
- Disjunctive
- Conditional (or hypothetical)


college_physics

Question: An atom has filled n = 1 and n = 2 levels. How many electrons does the atom have?

Choices:
- 2
- 4
- 6
- 10


human_aging

Question: A researcher finds that age is negatively correlated with cigarette smoking; this means that

Choices:
- Older adults experience more negative effects from smoking that do younger adults
- Older adults smoke more than younger adults
- Older adults smoke less than younger adults
- Older and younger adults smoke about the same number of cigarettes and both experience negative effects


professional_accounting

Question: In the current year Vinton exchanged unimproved land for an apartment building. The land had a basis of $300000 and a fair market value (FMV) of $420000 and was encumbered by a $100000 mortgage. The apartment building had an FMV of $550000 and was encumbered by a $230000 mortgage. Each party assumed the other's mortgage. What is Vinton's basis in the office building?

Choices:
- $300,000
- $320,000
- $430,000
- 550000


high_school_mathematics

Question: The maximum value of the function f (x) = xe^{–x} is

Choices:
- 1/e
- e
- 1
- -1


high_school_macroeconomics

Question: Business cycles

Choices:
- occur infrequently in capitalist economies.
- refer to reusing resources in production.
- are predictable ups and downs in economic activity.
- are each comprised of a recession and an expansion.


conceptual_physics

Question: The potential energy of a compressed spring and the potential energy of a charged object both depend on

Choices:
- the work done on them
- motion
- Both of these
- Neither of these


human_aging

Question: A disadvantage of institutional care is that the staff frequently teach older residents to be

Choices:
- Rude
- Dependent
- Independent
- Selfish


college_physics

Question: Two identical satellites, A and B, are in circular orbits around Earth. The orbital radius of A is twice that of B. Which of the following gives the ratio of the angular momentum of A to the angular momentum of B?

Choices:
- 4
- 2
- sqrt(2)
- 1/sqrt(2)


econometrics

Question: If an estimator is said to be consistent, it is implied that

Choices:
- On average, the estimated coefficient values will equal the true values
- The OLS estimator is unbiased and no other unbiased estimator has a smaller variance
- The estimates will converge upon the true values as the sample size increases
- The coefficient estimates will be as close to their true values as possible for small and large samples.


college_medicine

Question: The genome is:

Choices:
- the number of chromosomes found in the somatic cells of an organism.
- the entire DNA sequence of an organism.
- the entire list of proteins that an organism is capable of producing.
- the DNA sequence of an entire chromosome.


professional_law

Question: A buyer signed a contract to purchase a tract of land from a seller. The contract was signed on May 1, 2006, and the closing is set for June 15, 2006. The land was located in a jurisdiction that has in force the following statute:Statute of Limitations "an action to recover the possession of land shall be brought within twenty- one (21) years after the cause thereof accrued, but if a person who is entitled to bring such action at the time the cause accrued is within the age of minority (under 21) or of unsound mind, such action may be brought within ten (10) years after such disability is removed. "This statute was enacted in the jurisdiction in 1930. The land in question had been owned by a rancher in 1960. On September 1, 1960, the rancher died intestate, leaving his nephew as his only heir. The nephew had been born on October 1, 1954. In addition, there is a deed from the rancher's administrator to the seller dated November 1, 1960, which the latter recorded on the same date. During his title search, the buyer learned that the administrator had never obtained any license to sell the land in question; and also he (the administrator) never formally received the approval of any court with respect to the administration of the rancher's estate. Moreover, the buyer ascertained that the seller entered into possession of the land in question on November 1, 1960. On the assumption that there are no additional facts, the buyer should be advised that the seller became or will become the owner of the land in question

Choices:
- on November 1, 1960.
- on November 12, 1981.
- on October 1, 1985.
- when the nephew dies.


professional_law

Question: A business purchased a computer from a seller's web site. The purchase form had a prominent hyperlink connection to a page that contained "important additional terms and conditions of sale," but the purchaser did not access that page. The delivered product included the additional terms in writing, along with a bold-lettered notice requiring the purchaser to return the product within 30 days if it did not accept the stated terms and conditions. After 35-days, the business became dissatisfied with the computer, and sued the seller for breach of contract. The seller demanded that the dispute be decided by private arbitration as per the additional terms and conditions to the agreement. Is the purchaser legally bound to participate in arbitration?

Choices:
- Yes, because by not returning the computer within 30 days, the purchaser was bound to the additional terms and conditions that were a part of the contract.
- Yes, because federal law requires that arbitration must be used to attempt an initial resolution with respect to sales that take place on the internet.
- No, because there was no contract formed due to the purchaser's lack of assent to the additional terms and conditions.
- No, because federal law requires that a company give 90 days for return and the 30-day provision was null and void.


high_school_chemistry

Question: The dimerization of NO2(g) to N2O4(g) is an endothermic process. Which of the following will, according to Le Châtelier's principle, increase the amount of N2O4 in a reaction vessel?

Choices:
- Decreasing the temperature
- Increasing the size of the reaction vessel
- Adding a selective catalyst
- Making the reaction vessel smaller


public_relations

Question: According to Macnamara's (2005) pyramid of evaluation, at which stage is media coverage most likely to be measured?

Choices:
- Inputs
- Outputs
- Outtakes
- Outcomes


conceptual_physics

Question: The phenomenon of interference occurs for

Choices:
- sound waves
- light waves
- Both of these
- Neither of these


high_school_statistics

Question: The appraised values of houses in a city have a mean of $125,000 with a standard deviation of $23,000. Because of a new teachers' contract, the school district needs an extra 10% in funds compared to the previous year. To raise this additional money, the city instructs the assessment office to raise all appraised house values by $5,000. What will be the new standard deviation of the appraised values of houses in the city?

Choices:
- $23,000
- $25,300
- $28,000
- $30,300


human_aging

Question: If you believe that we are mostly in control of our own development and that our behaviors, good or bad, determine how successful our aging with be, you would be said to have which of the following perspectives?

Choices:
- Organismic
- Nurture
- Continuity
- Mechanistic


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The SVM learning algorithm is guaranteed to find the globally optimal hypothesis with respect to its object function. Statement 2| After being mapped into feature space Q through a radial basis kernel function, a Perceptron may be able to achieve better classification performance than in its original space (though we can’t guarantee this).

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


philosophy

Question: Singer claims that his conclusions are similar to those of:

Choices:
- Plato.
- Aristotle.
- Thomas Aquinas.
- Immanuel Kant.


professional_accounting

Question: Which of the following procedures would an accountant least likely perform during an engagement to review the financial statements of a nonissuer?

Choices:
- Make inquiries of management about actions taken at board of directors' meetings.
- Study the relationships of financial statement elements expected to conform to predictable patterns.
- Identify internal control activities that are likely to prevent or detect material misstatements.
- Compare the financial statements with anticipated results in budgets and forecasts.


anatomy

Question: Male hormones are produced by which of the following?

Choices:
- Glans penis
- Prepuce
- Prostate
- Testes


public_relations

Question: Which author emphasised strategy as achieving competitive advantage for an organization?

Choices:
- Steyn (2003)
- Gregory (2006)
- Cutlip et al (2006)
- Henry (2006)


econometrics

Question:
If OLS is used in the presence of autocorrelation, which of the following will be likely consequences?

i) Coefficient estimates may be misleading

ii) Hypothesis tests could reach the wrong conclusions

iii) Forecasts made from the model could be biased

iv) Standard errors may inappropriate

Choices:
- (ii) and (iv) only
- (i) and (iii) only
- (i), (ii), and (iii) only
- (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv)


professional_accounting

Question: A company is considering a move to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering instead of a traditional in-house application. Which of the following concerns is unique to SaaS?

Choices:
- Disaster recovery capabilities and documented recovery procedures.
- User credential setup and control over the actions that employees can perform.
- Allocation of software expenses and overhead charged to departments.
- Ownership of processed data and costs of data migrations.


high_school_mathematics

Question: A consumer report revealed the following information about three tubes of toothpaste. Bright is $60 \%$ more expensive than Fresh and has $25\%$ less volume than Glow. Glow is $25\%$ less expensive than Bright and has $33\frac{1}{3} \%$ more volume than Fresh. Fresh costs $\$1.00$ per unit of volume. What is the number of cents per unit of volume of Glow?

Choices:
- 90
- 120
- 60
- 320


college_mathematics

Question: What is the greatest possible area of a triangular region with one vertex at the center of a circle of radius 1 and the other two vertices on the circle?

Choices:
- 1/2
- 1
- sqrt(2)
- pi


electrical_engineering

Question: Five capacitors each of 5 µF are connected in series, the equivalent capacitance of the system will be

Choices:
- 5 µF
- 25 µF
- 10 µF
- 1 µF


college_physics

Question: A resistor in a circuit dissipates energy at a rate of 1 W. If the voltage across the resistor is doubled, what will be the new rate of energy dissipation?

Choices:
- 0.25 W
- 0.5 W
- 1 W
- 4 W


electrical_engineering

Question: Susceptibility is negative for

Choices:
- non magnetic substances.
- diamagnetic substances.
- ferromagnetic substances.
- none of above.


college_physics

Question: The sign of the charge carriers in a doped semiconductor can be deduced by measuring which of the following properties?

Choices:
- Magnetic susceptibility
- Hall coefficient
- Electrical resistivity
- Thermal conductivity


human_aging

Question: High levels of social support are strongly associated with

Choices:
- Longevity
- Internal control
- Culture
- Education


conceptual_physics

Question: When you scale up an object to 3 times its linear size, the surface area increases by

Choices:
- 3 and the volume by 9.
- 3 and the volume by 27.
- 9 and the volume by 27.
- 4 and the volume by 8.


college_physics

Question: A uniform solid disk starts from rest and rolls down an inclined plane without slipping. After some time, what fraction of the disk’s total kinetic energy is rotational kinetic energy?

Choices:
- 1/4
- 1/3
- 1/2
- 2/3


professional_law

Question: It was raining hard one evening as a cab driver was looking for one last passenger. A passenger flagged him down and directed him to take her home. The cab driver recognized the passenger as a former girlfriend, and the passenger invited him into her house when they arrived. Unknown to the cab driver, the passenger was an undercover police officer who worked in the sex crimes unit. When they were inside the passenger's house, the cab driver made sexual advances toward the passenger, who responded by kissing him and holding his hand. The cab driver was about to kiss the passenger again, when she got up to answer the phone in the kitchen. If the cab driver is subsequently arrested and charged with the attempted rape of the passenger, he should be found

Choices:
- not guilty.
- not guilty, solely because he was entrapped.
- not guilty, if he raises the proper alibi defense.
- not guilty, if he was predisposed to commit thecrime.


anatomy

Question: The dorsal roots of all spinal nerves contain

Choices:
- sensory neuronal processes.
- sensory and autonomic neuronal processes.
- motor neuronal processes.
- motor and autonomic neuronal processes.


high_school_physics

Question: An object carries a charge of –1 C. How many excess electrons does it contain?

Choices:
- 6.25 × 10^18
- 8.00 × 10^18
- 1.60 × 10^19
- 3.20 × 10^19


college_mathematics

Question: In xyz-space, what are the coordinates of the point on the plane 2x + y + 3z = 3 that is closest to the origin?

Choices:
- (0, 0, 1)
- (3/7, 3/14, 9/14)
- (7/15, 8/15, 1/15)
- (5/6, 1/3, 1/3)


clinical_knowledge

Question: Which of the following statements is false?

Choices:
- Phosphofructokinase is the rate limiting enzyme in glycolysis.
- Phosphorylase activity is higher in Type II fibres than in Type I fibres.
- Endurance training increases the amount of TCA cycle enzymes in muscle.
- Oxygen is consumed in the TCA cycle.


college_medicine

Question: The transcription of DNA to a molecule of messenger RNA occurs:

Choices:
- on the ribosomes.
- in the cytosol.
- in the nucleus.
- only during cell division.


professional_law

Question: A man was charged with first-degree murder. Two lawyers were appointed to represent him because the prosecution planned to seek the death penalty. On the first day of trial, the air-conditioning malfunctioned in the courtroom, so the judge directed that the selection of the jurors take place in his chambers. Because of the large number of potential jurors, the judge directed that only one lawyer for the prosecution and one for the defense participate in the jury selection process. The defendant remained in the courtroom during the questioning of the jurors. Once the jury was selected, the trial was postponed until the next day, when the air-conditioning was again working. Did the court's jury selection process violate the defendant's federal constitutional rights?

Choices:
- No, because a defendant's confrontation rights are limited to witnesses rather than jurors.
- No, because there was good cause to conduct jury selection outside the defendant's presence.
- Yes, because excluding the defendant undercut the presumption of innocence.
- Yes, because jury selection is a critical stage at which a defendant is entitled to be present.


high_school_us_history

Question:
This question refers to the following information.
"The only force which is strong enough to break down social convention is economic necessity. . . . The economic necessity which has forced women out of the home and into the world of business has completely annihilated the old idea that a woman should eat only in the privacy of her household or in the homes of her friends, has created the absolutely new social phenomenon of women eating in public, unescorted by men, by the tens of thousands, and has given rise to a wholly new phase of the restaurant business."
—The New York Times, October 15, 1905
Which of the following groups would have most likely supported the scenario described in this passage?

Choices:
- Ku Klux Klan.
- American Temperance Union.
- National Woman Suffrage Association.
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference.


high_school_statistics

Question: An automobile service station performs oil changes and tire replacements, as well as other services. Sixty percent of its customers request an oil change, 30 percent request tire replacements, and 10 percent request both. A customer requests an oil change. What is the probability this customer does not request tire replacements?

Choices:
- 0.42
- 0.5
- 0.7
- 0.833


college_medicine

Question: A scientist using mouse models to determine the response of blood hormones to large levels of glucose in the body discovers a new hormone not previously described. According to his data, this hormone is found both inside and out of cells when carrying out its function, increase the amount of nucleic acid in the cell while functioning, and are derived from a structure containing four hydroxycarbon rings. This will likely be categorized as which type of hormone?

Choices:
- Enzymatic
- Steroid
- Peptide
- Amino acid


high_school_macroeconomics

Question: Which of the following is an example of an expansionary supply shock?

Choices:
- Rapid increasing wages
- A greatly depreciated currency
- Declining labor productivity
- Lower factor prices in major industries


high_school_mathematics

Question: How many numbers are in the list $25, 26, 27, \ldots, 99, 100 ?$

Choices:
- 75
- 76
- 22
- 23


logical_fallacies

Question: Arguing that a lack of evidence proves something is the fallacy of...

Choices:
- Appeal to ignorance
- Double negative
- Equivocation
- Burden of proof


high_school_mathematics

Question: John has five children. What is the probability that at least half of them are girls? (We can assume a boy is equally likely to be born as is a girl, and vice-versa.)

Choices:
- \frac{1}{2}
- \frac{1}{4}
- \frac{1}{8}
- \frac{3}{5}


high_school_chemistry

Question: Sulfur dioxide reacts with oxygen to form sulfur trioxide in the presence of a catalyst. The equilibrium constant, Kp, at a certain temperature is 3.0 × 10^22. A 2.0-liter flask has enough SO3 added to it to produce a pressure of 0.789 atm Hg. After the reaction comes to equilibrium, the expected partial pressure of O2 will be

Choices:
- 2.88 × 10^-6 torr
- 3 × 10^-18 mm Hg
- 1100 mm Hg
- 1.32 × 10^-5 torr


anatomy

Question: Which of the following closes and seals off the lower airway during swallowing?

Choices:
- Alveoli
- Epiglottis
- Larynx
- Uvula


clinical_knowledge

Question: Which of the following is true about rectal bleeding?

Choices:
- A painful digital examination suggests an anal fissure
- Bright red blood on the finger usually signifies a caecal lesion
- Proctoscopy is of no value in the assessment of rectal bleeding
- Rectal cancer is the commonest cause of rectal bleeding


college_physics

Question: Two spaceships approach Earth with equal speeds, as measured by an observer on Earth, but from opposite directions. A meterstick on one spaceship is measured to be 60 cm long by an occupant of the other spaceship. What is the speed of each spaceship, as measured by the observer on Earth?

Choices:
- 0.4c
- 0.5c
- 0.6c
- 0.7c


college_medicine

Question: Type I muscle fibres have the following characteristics:

Choices:
- white, glycolytic, slow contracting.
- white, oxidative, slow contracting.
- red, oxidative, fast contracting.
- red, oxidative, slow contracting.


professional_accounting

Question: While performing an audit of the financial statements of a company for the year ended December 31, year 1, the auditor notes that the company’s sales increased substantially in December, year 1, with a corresponding decrease in January, year 2. In assessing the risk of fraudulent financial reporting or misappropriation of assets, what should be the auditor’s initial indication about the potential for fraud in sales revenue?

Choices:
- There is a broad indication of misappropriation of assets.
- There is an indication of theft of the entity’s assets.
- There is an indication of embezzling receipts.
- There is a broad indication of financial reporting fraud.


miscellaneous

Question: What is the only metal that is a liquid at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature?

Choices:
- lead
- antimony
- uranium
- mercury


college_medicine

Question: The energy released from the breakdown of the high-energy phosphates, ATP and phosphocreatine, can sustain maximal exertion exercise for about:

Choices:
- 1-2 seconds.
- 5-10 seconds.
- 30-40 seconds.
- 50-60 seconds.


econometrics

Question: Note that statistical tables are not necessary to answer this question. For a sample of 1000 observations, the Dickey-Fuller test statistic values are

Choices:
- More negative than (i.e. bigger in absolute value than) those in the left hand tail of a normal distribution
- Less negative than (i.e. smaller in absolute value than) those in the left hand tail of a normal distribution
- Obtained from an analytical formula for the density of the Dickey-Fuller distribution
- More negative (i.e. bigger in absolute value) for a 10% size of test than a 5% test.


high_school_geography

Question: A chief factor that contributed to the Second Agricultural Revolution was

Choices:
- the Industrial Revolution.
- World War I.
- World War II.
- the discovery of the plow.


high_school_statistics

Question: Suppose that 60% of a particular electronic part last over 3 years, while 70% last less than 6 years. Assuming a normal distribution, what are the mean and standard deviation with regard to length of life of these parts?

Choices:
- μ = 3.677, σ = 3.561
- μ = 3.977, σ = 3.861
- μ = 4.177, σ = 3.561
- μ = 4.377, σ = 3.261


philosophy

Question: Hare claims that the two essential features of the logic of moral judgments are:

Choices:
- consequentialism and hedonism.
- universalizability and prescriptivity.
- contractualism and rule-following.
- consistency and coherence.


philosophy

Question: For Plato, ordinary sensible objects exist and are knowable as examples or instances of Ideas or "Forms" that do not exist in our ordinary sensible world.  Forms do not exist in the sensible world because:

Choices:
- in the sensible world only mathematical objects (e.g., triangles) can be known using hypotheses which are recollected when we are asked the right kinds of questions.
- unlike everything in the sensible world, Forms are not individual things but rather the universal essences or natures by which individual things are what they are and are known.
- nothing in the sensible, experienced world could exist or be identified as one particular thing or another unless there were a "Sensible World" Form (like the Form of beauty or justice).
- the sensible world consists of changing Forms that exist and are known in terms of other changing Forms, which in turn exist and are known in terms of yet others in an endless regress.


high_school_us_history

Question:
This question refers to the following information.
"We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever, but also we found that the Vietnamese whom we had enthusiastically molded after our own image were hard put to take up the fight against the threat we were supposedly saving them from.
"We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart. They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Viet Cong, North Vietnamese or American."
John Kerry, 1971
Which of the following best characterizes the policy of détente?

Choices:
- Direct confrontation
- Covert sabotage
- Decolonization
- Mutual coexistence


public_relations

Question: There are three basic types of persuasive advertising campaigns. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Choices:
- Product-oriented
- Person-oriented
- Idea-oriented
- Result-oriented


electrical_engineering

Question: Piezoelectric effect is carried out in

Choices:
- composite filter.
- crystal filter.
- m derived.
- constant k prototype.


global_facts

Question: The percentage of children in Ethiopia (age 8) who reported physical punishment by teachers in the past week in 2009 was about what?

Choices:
- 18%
- 38%
- 58%
- 78%


high_school_statistics

Question: The total cholesterol level in a large population of people is strongly skewed right with a mean of 210 mg/dL and a standard deviation of 15 mg/dL. If random samples of size 16 are repeatedly drawn from this population, which of the following appropriately describes the sampling distribution of these sample means?

Choices:
- The shape is unknown with a mean of 210 and a standard deviation of 15.
- The shape is somewhat skewed right with a mean of 210 and a standard deviation of 3.75.
- The shape is approximately normal with a mean of 210 and a standard deviation of 15.
- The shape is approximately normal with a mean of 210 and a standard deviation of 3.75.


conceptual_physics

Question: Heat comes from the Sun to Earth by the process of

Choices:
- conduction
- convection
- radiation
- All of these, although radiation is greatest


professional_accounting

Question: An audit client has a valid reason for requesting that a certain account receivable that the auditor has selected for confirmation not be confirmed. Under these circumstances the auditor should

Choices:
- Verify the account balance by inspecting the client's bank statements and cash receipt records.
- Select at random a different account for confirmation that is approximately the same size.
- Request the client's management to document the matter in the management representation letter.
- Explain to the client that the request will most likely cause the auditor to disclaim an opinion.


high_school_chemistry

Question: You cannot prepare a buffer by

Choices:
- mixing a solution of a weak base with a strong acid
- mixing a solution of a weak acid with a strong base
- mixing a solution of a strong base with a strong acid
- mixing a solution of a weak acid with its conjugate base


college_physics

Question: A grating spectrometer can just barely resolve two wavelengths of 500 nm and 502 nm, respectively. Which of the following gives the resolving power of the spectrometer?

Choices:
- 2
- 250
- 5,000
- 10,000


miscellaneous

Question: What was the name of Huey Lewis band?

Choices:
- The News
- The Attractions
- The Silver Bullet Band
- Louie and Dewey


high_school_geography

Question: Urban agriculture can benefit urban society in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Choices:
- create sustainable food systems in urban areas.
- provide jobs for women and children.
- turn urban waste into a resource when utilized in safe manner.
- replace agribusiness as the main focus of global food production.


college_medicine

Question: The main fate of lactate that leaves muscle and enters the circulation is:

Choices:
- conversion to urea in the liver.
- conversion to glucose in the heart.
- excretion via the kidneys.
- uptake and oxidation by other tissues.


philosophy

Question: Berkeley believes that sensible things cannot exist except in _____.

Choices:
- a mind
- absolute existence
- material substance
- a material universe


college_mathematics

Question: Let (Z_{10} , +, x) be the ring of integers modulo 10, and let S be the subset of Z_{10} represented by {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Choices:
- (S, +, x) is closed under addition modulo 10.
- (S, +, x) is closed under multiplication modulo 10.
- (S, +, x) has an identity under addition modulo 10.
- (S, +, x) has no identity under multiplication modulo 10.


econometrics

Question: The order condition is

Choices:
- A necessary and sufficient condition for identification
- A necessary but not sufficient condition for identification
- A sufficient but not necessary condition for identification
- A condition that is nether necessary nor sufficient for identification


college_chemistry

Question: Calculate the spin angular momentum of 43Ca. [I = 7⁄2]

Choices:
- 2.166 x 10^-34 J s
- 3.691 x 10^-34 J s
- 4.185 x 10^-34 J s
- 5.493 x 10^-34 J s


high_school_physics

Question: A fluid of density ρ flows through a horizontal pipe with negligible viscosity. The flow is streamlined with constant flow rate. The diameter of the pipe at Point 1 is d and the flow speed is V. If the diameter of the pipe at Point 2 is d/3, then the pressure at Point 2 is

Choices:
- less than the pressure at Point 1 by 4 ρv^2
- less than the pressure at Point 1 by 40 ρv^2
- more than the pressure at Point 1 by 4 ρv^2
- more than the pressure at Point 1 by 40 ρv^2


professional_law

Question: After the murder of his brother, a man published the following notice in the local newspaper:"REWARDAny person who supplies information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of my brother will be paid $10,000. "An amateur detective, without knowledge of the reward notice, began investigating the matter as a result of his own curiosity kindled by the sensationalism surrounding the brother's murder. One week later, the detective secured information that led to the arrest and later conviction of the murderer. During the murder trial, the detective found out about the reward and demanded the $10,000 from the man. In an action by the detective to recover the $10,000 reward, he will

Choices:
- succeed, because his apprehension of the murderer created a contract implied in law.
- succeed, because he was unaware of the offer.
- not succeed, because he did not have knowledge of the reward.
- not succeed, because his investigation was not a bargained-for exchange.


virology

Question: As regards the range of diseases caused by viruses:

Choices:
- Each member of the 'family' causes the same disease.
- Members of many families can cause the same sort of disease.
- Most virus disease are now controlled by vaccines.
- Most viruses can cross placenta and be teratogenic.


college_medicine

Question: Vygotsky’s sociocultural development theory attempts to describe the interaction between the mental function children are born with and how they develop those into what they possess as adults. One of the important components of this is the zone of proximal development. Which of the following statements accurately describes an individual in the zone of proximal development?

Choices:
- A baseball player hits baseballs from a tee in order to build muscle memory.
- A concert flute player falls short of finishing a piece that has a very complex ending without mistakes
- A high school English student submits a paper for review by his professor.
- A high diver takes instruction from her coach to improve her form on a specific move.


high_school_mathematics

Question: How many unique numbers can be made from creating a fraction with $2,3,4,$ or $6$ in the numerator and $2,3,4,$ or $6$ in the denominator?

Choices:
- 1
- 9
- 2
- 10


high_school_us_history

Question:
This question refers to the following information.
"In one view the slaveholders have a decided advantage over all opposition. It is well to notice this advantage—the advantage of complete organization. They are organized; and yet were not at the pains of creating their organizations. The State governments, where the system of slavery exists, are complete slavery organizations. The church organizations in those States are equally at the service of slavery; while the Federal Government, with its army and navy, from the chief magistracy in Washington, to the Supreme Court, and thence to the chief marshalship at New York, is pledged to support, defend, and propagate the crying curse of human bondage. The pen, the purse, and the sword, are united against the simple truth, preached by humble men in obscure places."
Frederick Douglass, 1857
In what way did the actions of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 contradict Douglass's sentiments in the excerpt above?

Choices:
- Lincoln promoted the freedom of settlers within territories to determine the slave status of their new state.
- Lincoln passed the Homestead Act to give free land to all western settlers.
- Lincoln favored the exclusion of slavery from any of the new territories.
- Lincoln enacted the policy of giving newly freed slaves "forty acres and a mule."


human_aging

Question: The answer "both play an important role" is clearly applicable to the question of

Choices:
- Nature vs. nurture
- Mechanistic vs organismic
- Continuity vs. discontinuity
- All of these questions


high_school_physics

Question: A circuit consists of a battery and a light bulb. At first, the circuit is disconnected. Then, the circuit is connected, and the light bulb lights. After the light bulb has been lit for a few moments, how has the net charge residing on the circuit elements changed?

Choices:
- The net charge has become more positive.
- The net charge has become more negative.
- The net charge has not changed.
- Whether the net charge becomes more positive or more negative depends on the initial net charge residing on the circuit elements before the bulb was lit.


high_school_macroeconomics

Question: Expansionary fiscal policy would best be prescribed to

Choices:
- eliminate a recessionary gap
- reduce inflation
- reduce the interest rate
- eliminate an inflationary gap


college_physics

Question: If the total energy of a particle of mass m is equal to twice its rest energy, then the magnitude of the particle’s relativistic momentum is

Choices:
- mc/2
- mc/(2^(1/2))
- mc
- (3^(1/2))mc


high_school_geography

Question: The most rapidly urbanizing area of the world is:

Choices:
- Europe
- East Asia
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- South Asia


high_school_geography

Question: To get to school in the morning, we ALL use this as our guide:

Choices:
- Rand-McNally Road Atlas.
- world globe.
- road map.
- mental map.


econometrics

Question:
Consider the following AR(2) process:

yt = 1.5 yt-1 - 0.5 yt-2 + ut

This is a

Choices:
- Stationary process
- Unit root process
- Explosive process
- Stationary and unit root process


college_medicine

Question: The body compensates for increased environmental temperature by:

Choices:
- decreasing salt retention
- increasing respiration rate
- increasing heart rate
- increasing water lost through skin


electrical_engineering

Question: Which of the following is a digital device

Choices:
- Regulator of a fan
- Microphone
- Resistance of a material
- Light switch


conceptual_physics

Question: A galvanometer can be calibrated to read electric

Choices:
- current
- voltage
- Either of these
- Neither of these


high_school_geography

Question: Which geographer viewed the US urban community of the 1920s as a set of concentric rings radiating outward from a central core?

Choices:
- Rostow
- Ravenstein
- Von Thünen
- Burgess


anatomy

Question: A patient suffers a broken neck with damage to the spinal cord at the level of the sixth cervical vertebra.

Choices:
- They will be unable to breathe without life support.
- They will only be able to breathe quietly.
- It is impossible to predict an effect on breathing.
- Breathing will be unaffected.


professional_accounting

Question: Gulde’s tax basis in Chyme Partnership was $26,000 at the time Gulde received a liquidating distribution of $12,000 cash and land with an adjusted basis to Chyme of $10,000 and a fair market value of $30,000. Chyme did not have unrealized receivables, appreciated inventory, or properties that had been contributed by its partners. What was the amount of Gulde’s basis in the land?

Choices:
- $0
- $10,000
- $14,000
- $30,000


college_chemistry

Question: During a delay, spins with an offset frequency Ω = 250 rad s-1 precess through an angle of 60°. How long is the delay?

Choices:
- 4.19 ms
- 26.3 ms
- 240 ms
- 1510 ms


college_physics

Question: Light of variable frequency shines on the metal surface of a photoelectric tube. Einstein’s theory of the photoelectric effect predicts that the

Choices:
- work function of the metal is proportional to the frequency
- work function of the metal is proportional to the wavelength
- current in the tube is a linear function of the wavelength
- potential difference necessary to stop the emitted electrons is a linear function of the frequency above the threshold frequency


business_ethics

Question: ________ is any business effort to influence government or public policy. It includes activities such as __________, political advertising, financial contributions, ________ action and political ________.

Choices:
- Private regulation, Lobbying, Environmental, Fundraising
- Private regulation, Consumer Marketing, Legal, Fundraising
- Corporate political activity, Lobbying, Legal, Campaigning
- Corporate political activity, Consumer marketing, Environmental, Campaigning


business_ethics

Question: The Right to _______ has been a long-standing ethical concern for employees which today are addressed in most developed countries through a dense network of occupational health, safety and environmental regulations companies must abide by.

Choices:
- Work-life balance
- Healthy and safe working conditions
- Employee privacy
- Free Speech


miscellaneous

Question: According to the title of a popular children's TV show what color is Bear's big house?

Choices:
- red
- green
- purple
- blue


college_physics

Question: Positronium is an atom formed by an electron and a positron (antielectron). It is similar to the hydrogen atom, with the positron replacing the proton. If a positronium atom makes a transition from the state with n=3 to a state with n=1, the energy of the photon emitted in this transition is closest to

Choices:
- 6.0 e
- 6.8 eV
- 12.2 eV
- 13.6 eV


high_school_us_history

Question:
This question refers to the following information.
They ask us how we shall govern these new possessions. I answer: Out of local conditions and the necessities of the case methods of government will grow. If England can govern foreign lands, so can America. If Germany can govern foreign lands, so can America. If they can supervise protectorates, so can America. Why is it more difficult to administer Hawaii than New Mexico or California? Both had a savage and an alien population; both were more remote from the seat of government when they came under our dominion than the Philippines are to-day.
Will you say by your vote that American ability to govern has decayed; that a century's experience in self-rule has failed of a result? Will you affirm by your vote that you are an infidel to American power and practical sense? Or will you say that ours is the blood of government; ours the heart of dominion; ours the brain and genius of administration? Will you remember that we do but what our fathers did—we but pitch the tents of liberty farther westward, farther southward—we only continue the march of the flag?
—Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag," Indianapolis, September 16, 1898
The policy advocated by Beveridge foreshadowed which of the following?

Choices:
- The rise of the United States to the status of a great power
- A period of growing isolationism
- A period of laissez-faire economics
- Growing support for constitutional strict constructionism


logical_fallacies

Question: Fallacies can be psychologically persuasive even though they are...

Choices:
- Psychologically impotent
- Logically flawed
- Deductively valid
- Inductively valid


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following protocols is used to transport HTML pages from Web servers to Web browsers?

Choices:
- BOOTP
- HTTP
- SNMP
- SMTP


high_school_us_history

Question:
This question refers to the following information.
"Since the foundations of the American commonwealth were laid in colonial times over 300 years ago, vigorous complaint and more or less bitter persecution have been aimed at newcomers to our shores. Also the congressional reports of about 1840 are full of abuse of English, Scotch, Welsh immigrants as paupers, criminals, and so forth. Old citizens in Detroit of Irish and German descent have told me of the fierce tirades and propaganda directed against the great waves of Irish and Germans who came over from 1840 on for a few decades to escape civil, racial, and religious persecution in their native lands. The "Know-Nothings," lineal ancestors of the Ku-Klux Klan, bitterly denounced the Irish and Germans as mongrels, scum, foreigners, and a menace to our institutions, much as other great branches of the Caucasian race of glorious history and antecedents are berated to-day….But to-day it is the Italians, Spanish, Poles, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Balkanians, and so forth, who are the racial lepers…..In this bill we find racial discrimination at its worst—a deliberate attempt to go back 84 years in our census taken every 10 years so that a blow may be aimed at peoples of eastern and southern Europe, particularly at our recent allies in the Great War—Poland and Italy."
Robert H. Clancy, Congressional Record, 68th Congress, 1st Session, 1924
What best accounts for the sharp increase of immigrants during the period 1880–1910?

Choices:
- Many Southern and Eastern Europeans turned to America for financial gain and political freedom.
- Irish farmers were forced to leave their homes due to agricultural disasters.
- Germans were seeking ways to avoid military conscription.
- The United States welcomed immigrants by providing housing and employment.


miscellaneous

Question: What is the baseball term for a batter who substitutes for another batter?

Choices:
- Switchhitter
- Shadow hitter
- Clip hitter
- Pinch hitter


high_school_statistics

Question: A high school sent a survey to a randomly selected sample of 75 of last year's graduating class. 27 of those selected did not return the survey. The best plan of action would be to:

Choices:
- Use the surveys that were returned and change the sample size to 48 for the analysis.
- Use the surveys that were returned and leave the sample size at 75 for the analysis.
- Randomly select 27 additional class members and send the survey to them.
- Follow up with those that did not return the survey to encourage them to respond.


college_physics

Question: White light is normally incident on a puddle of water (index of refraction 1.33). A thin (500 nm) layer of oil (index of refraction 1.5) floats on the surface of the puddle. Of the following, the most strongly reflected wavelength is

Choices:
- 500 nm
- 550 nm
- 600 nm
- 650 nm


high_school_mathematics

Question: If we express $3x^2 + x - 4$ in the form $a(x - h)^2 + k$, then what is $k$?

Choices:
- -\frac{7}{12}
- -7
- 49
- -\frac{49}{12}


high_school_macroeconomics

Question: According to Monetarist theory

Choices:
- the FED should actively conduct monetary policy.
- changes in the money supply do not have significant effects.
- fiscal policy is the preferred way of shifting the aggregate demand curve.
- the FED should allow the money supply to grow at a constant rate.


high_school_geography

Question: What is the most rapidly growing religion in the United States today?

Choices:
- Islam
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Buddhism


professional_accounting

Question: Which of the following factors should an external auditor obtain updated information about when assessing an internal auditor’s competence?

Choices:
- The reporting status of the internal auditor within the organization.
- The educational level and professional experiences of the internal auditor.
- Whether policies prohibit the internal auditor from auditing areas where relatives are employed.
- Whether the board of directors, audit committee, or owner-manager oversees employment decisions related to the internal auditor.


college_mathematics

Question: Suppose P is the set of polynomials with coefficients in Z_5 and degree less than or equal to 7. If the operator D sends p(x) in P to its derivative p′(x), what are the dimensions of the null space n and range r of D?

Choices:
- n = 1 and r = 6
- n = 1 and r = 7
- n = 2 and r = 5
- n = 2 and r = 6


business_ethics

Question: _________ are individual beliefs about desirable behaviours and goals that are stable over time and which influence decision making.

Choices:
- Character traits
- Personal values
- Personal attitudes
- Personal traits


college_medicine

Question: After what period of time does maximal dynamic exercise become predominantly aerobic?

Choices:
- 10 seconds
- 30 seconds
- 1 minute
- 4 minutes


high_school_mathematics

Question: If $888x + 889y = 890$ and $891x + 892y = 893$, what is the value of $x - y$?

Choices:
- 1
- -3
- -1
- 3


clinical_knowledge

Question: Which of the following is true of a lower motor neurone lesion in the arm?

Choices:
- It leads to increased tone in the arm (hypertonia)
- Fasciculations are never seen
- The reflexes are brisk
- An ulna nerve palsy is an example of a lower motor neurone lesion


business_ethics

Question: ______ the workplace involves empowering employees through, for example, 'job enrichment' where employees are given a larger scope for deciding how to organize their work or 'job enlargement' where employees are given a wider range of tasks to do.

Choices:
- Re-invigorating
- Re-flourishing
- Revitalizing
- Rehumanizing


global_facts

Question: Before being reelected for a third term as president how many Americans approved of running a third time?

Choices:
- 20%
- 40%
- 60%
- 80%


high_school_mathematics

Question: Compute the area of the triangle whose altitudes have lengths 10, 12, and 15.

Choices:
- 56\sqrt{15}
- 240\sqrt{7}
- 60\sqrt{7}
- 240\sqrt{7}/7


business_ethics

Question: Which of the three following organisational characteristics of small businesses tend to characterise their engagement with business related issues?

Choices:
- Size and complexity, owner and family member influence on the organisation, shareholder and stakeholder power
- Lack of organisational resources, size and complexity, owner and family member influence
- Informal relationships, owner and family member influence on the organisation, lack of organisational resources
- Bureaucratic and formal organisational structure, lack of organisational resources, conflicts of interest


high_school_statistics

Question: Both over-the-counter niacin and the prescription drug Lipitor are known to lower blood cholesterol levels. In one double-blind study Lipitor outperformed niacin. The 95% confidence interval estimate of the difference in mean cholesterol level lowering was (18, 41). Which of the following is a reasonable conclusion?

Choices:
- Niacin lowers cholesterol an average of 18 points, while Lipitor lowers cholesterol an average of 41 points.
- There is a 0.95 probability that Lipitor will outperform niacin in lowering the cholesterol level of any given individual.
- There is a 0.95 probability that Lipitor will outperform niacin by at least 23 points in lowering the cholesterol level of any given individual.
- None of the above.


public_relations

Question: When an attitude is communicated, what does it become?

Choices:
- An opinion
- A belief
- A behaviour
- A point of view


business_ethics

Question: The rise in business led, private regulation can be attributed to: encouragement of a _______ approach from industry, _________ and _______ achievement of objectives.

Choices:
- Faster, Cost effectiveness, Slower
- Faster, Heightened costs, Slower
- Proactive, Cost effectiveness, Faster
- Proactive, Heightened costs, Faster


college_chemistry

Question: The equilibrium populations of the 1H energy levels of a molecule are nα = nαeq and nβ = nβeq. What are the populations after a 5.0 μs pulse when B1 = 4.697 mT?

Choices:
- nα = nβeq and nβ = nαeq
- nα = nαeq and nβ = nβeq
- nα = ½(nαeq + nβeq) and nβ = ½(nαeq + nβeq)
- nα = nαeq + nβeq and nβ = nαeq + nβeq


astronomy

Question: The belts and zones of Jupiter are

Choices:
- names for the layers of gaseous and metallic hydrogen deep within the planet.
- alternating bands of rising and falling air at different latitudes.
- alternating regions of charged particles in Jupiter's magnetic field.
- regions of the plasma torus created by ions from Io's volcanoes


high_school_statistics

Question: Which of the following statements is false?

Choices:
- Like the normal distribution, the t-distributions are symmetric.
- The t-distributions are lower at the mean and higher at the tails, and so are more spread out than the normal distribution.
- The greater the df, the closer the t-distributions are to the normal distribution.
- The smaller the df, the better the 68-95-99.7 Rule works for t-models.


conceptual_physics

Question: The electric field between a pair of oppositely charged parallel plates

Choices:
- gets weaker with distance inside the plates
- follows the inverse-square law
- Both of these
- Neither of these


clinical_knowledge

Question: The optimum position for performing CPR is to position the patient:

Choices:
- in a semi-recumbent posture.
- tilted to the left to keep the heart perfused.
- flat on a firm surface.
- on the floor with the legs raised.


conceptual_physics

Question: A rock suspended by a weighing scale weighs 5 N out of water and 3 N when submerged in water. What is the buoyant force on the rock?

Choices:
- 3 N
- 5 N
- 8 N
- None of these


college_chemistry

Question: Exact solutions of the Schrödinger equation CANNOT be obtained for a

Choices:
- simple harmonic oscillator
- particle in a one-dimensional box
- rigid rotor
- helium atom


high_school_statistics

Question: A small kiosk at the Atlanta airport carries souvenirs in the price range of $3.99 to $29.99, with a mean price of $14.75. The airport authorities decide to increase the rent charged for a kiosk by 5 percent. To make up for the increased rent, the kiosk owner decides to increase the prices of all items by 50 cents. As a result, which of the following will happen?

Choices:
- The mean price and the range of prices will increase by 50 cents.
- The mean price will remain the same, but the range of prices will increase by 50 cents.
- The mean price and the standard deviation of prices will increase by 50 cents.
- The mean price will increase by 50 cents, but the standard deviation of prices will remain the same.


global_facts

Question: About what percentage of the global population was literate in 1950?

Choices:
- 36%
- 56%
- 76%
- 96%


conceptual_physics

Question: Consider a ball rolling in a horizontal circular path on the inside surface of a cone. The normal force on the ball

Choices:
- is mg
- is greater than mg always
- may be greater or less than mg
- is less than mg always


miscellaneous

Question: How many innings are there in a regular Major League Baseball game?

Choices:
- seven
- eight
- nine
- ten


human_aging

Question: About what percentage of people who have had bridge jobs say it was better than their career job?

Choices:
- Less than 25%
- Less than 50%
- More than 50%
- More than 75%


college_medicine

Question: Embedded in the inner membrane of the mitochondrion are:

Choices:
- the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle (Krebs' cycle).
- the components of the electron transport chain.
- glycogen molecules.
- triacylglycerol molecules.


astronomy

Question: How did Eratosthenes estimate the size of the Earth in 240 B.C.?

Choices:
- By measuring the maximum altitude of the Sun in two cities at different latitudes at the same time on the same day.
- By measuring the size of Earth's shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
- By finding a place on Earth where the Sun passes directly overhead.
- By sending fleets of ships around the Earth.


professional_accounting

Question: An entity prepares its financial statements on the income tax basis. A description of how that basis differs from GAAP should be included in the

Choices:
- Notes to the financial statements.
- Auditor’s engagement letter.
- Management representation letter.
- Introductory paragraph of the auditor’s report.


high_school_chemistry

Question: Which of the following is the correct order of increasing acid strength?

Choices:
- H2SeO3 < H2SO3 < HClO < HBrO
- HClO < H2SeO3 < HBrO < H2SO3
- HBrO < HClO < H2SeO3 < H2SO3
- H2SO3 < H2SeO3 < HClO < HBrO


astronomy

Question: You've made a scientific theory that there is a force between all objects. This forcce has both a dark and light side. When will your theory be proven correct?

Choices:
- When you and many other Jedi have tested the hypothesis
- Jean-Luc Skywalker drops Yoda during the day and he falls to the ground proving your theory.
- You can never prove your theory to be correct only "yet to be proven wrong."
- After you've repeated your experiment many times


econometrics

Question:
Suppose that the value of $R^2$ for an estimated regression model is exactly zero. Which of the following are true?

i) All coefficient estimates on the slopes will be zero

ii) The fitted line will be horizontal with respect to all of the explanatory variables

iii) The regression line has not explained any of the variability of y about its mean value

iv) The intercept coefficient estimate must be zero.

Choices:
- (ii) and (iv) only
- (i) and (iii) only
- (i), (ii), and (iii) only
- (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv)


human_aging

Question: Bu is often late for appointments but says it's because she had more important things on her mind. This is an example of which coping strategy?

Choices:
- Immunization
- Accommodation
- Avoidance
- Assimilation


global_facts

Question: As of 2019, about what percentage of French people say God plays an important role in their life?

Choices:
- 11%
- 31%
- 51%
- 71%


high_school_us_history

Question:
This question refers to the following information.
"Whereas it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this kingdom, and for extending and securing the navigation and commerce between Great Britain and your Majesty's dominions in America, which, by the peace, have been so happily enlarged: and whereas it is just and necessary, that a revenue be raised, in your Majesty's said dominions in America, for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same; we, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, being desirous to make some provision, in this present session of parliament, towards raising the said revenue in America, have resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty the several rates and duties herein after-mentioned…."
The Sugar Act of 1764
In harmony with the sentiments expressed in the excerpt, which of the following does NOT represent the views of Prime Minister Grenville after the French and Indian War?

Choices:
- He felt that the Crown needed to control trade and raise revenue.
- He felt that the colonists should help pay the debt incurred by the war.
- He felt that Parliament had the right to increase taxes on the colonies.
- He wanted to reward the colonies through his extension of "salutary neglect."


high_school_statistics

Question: In comparing the life expectancies of two models of refrigerators, the average years before complete breakdown of 10 model A refrigerators is compared with that of 15 model B refrigerators. The 90% confidence interval estimate of the difference is (6, 12). Which of the following is the most reasonable conclusion?

Choices:
- The mean life expectancy of one model is twice that of the other.
- The mean life expectancy of one model is 6 years, while the mean life expectancy of the other is 12 years.
- The probability that the life expectancies are different is 0.90.
- We should be 90% confident that the difference in life expectancies is between 6 and 12 years.


conceptual_physics

Question: Light reflecting from a smooth surface undergoes a change in

Choices:
- frequency.
- wavelength.
- All of these.
- None of these.


business_ethics

Question: What, according to Schnackenberg and Tomlinson (2014), are the three criteria which can be used to assess the quality of corporate transparency?

Choices:
- Breadth, Clarity, Accuracy
- Disclosure, Detail, Accuracy
- Disclosure, Clarity, Accuracy
- Disclosure, Clarity, Efficiency


human_aging

Question: Which of the following could very well be a cohort difference rather than a change that occurs with age?

Choices:
- Differences in weight
- Shrinkage of the thymus gland
- Enlargement of the heart
- Increasing size of nose and ears


clinical_knowledge

Question: Which of the following is true about Addisons Disease?

Choices:
- It is due to a deficiency of prolactin hormone
- Leads to generalized pigmentation
- It is a recognized cause of hypertension
- Diabetes is a complication


college_mathematics

Question: If c > 0 and f(x) = e^x - cx for all real numbers x, then the minimum value of f is

Choices:
- f(c)
- f(e^c)
- f(1/c)
- f(log c)


logical_fallacies

Question: Arguing in favor of a claim based only on the evidence that some regular people believe the claim is one way to commit which of the following fallacies?

Choices:
- poisoning the well
- common person appeal
- ad numerum
- suppressed evidence


college_mathematics

Question: A fair coin is to be tossed 100 times, with each toss resulting in a head or a tail. If H is the total number of heads and T is the total number of tails, which of the following events has the greatest probability?

Choices:
- H = 50
- T >= 60
- 51 <= H <= 55
- H >= 48 and T >= 48


astronomy

Question: Why is the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit currently tilted towards the north?

Choices:
- Because it’s climbing up a big hill.
- Because it’s in the southern hemisphere where it is winter now.
- Because it’s in the northern hemisphere where it is winter now.
- Because one of its wheels broke.


clinical_knowledge

Question: Which of the following factors does not influence success in sport?

Choices:
- Ability to tolerate heavy training without succumbing to illness or injury.
- Tactics.
- The diet.
- Ingestion of carnitine during exercise.


college_computer_science

Question: Hash tables can contribute to an efficient average-case solution for all of the problems described below EXCEPT:

Choices:
- Counting distinct values: Given a set of n keys, determine the number of distinct key values.
- Dynamic dictionary: Support the operations of insert, delete, and search in a dictionary.
- Range search: Given values a and b, find all the records whose key value is in the range a, b.
- Symbol table lookup: Given a program identifier, find its type and address.


astronomy

Question: The Large Magellanic Cloud is ...

Choices:
- a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.
- the closest planetary nebula to the Earth.
- a bright star cluster discovered by Magellan.
- the outer arm of the Milky Way named after Magellan.


college_computer_science

Question: Which of the following comes closest to being a perfectly secure encryption scheme?

Choices:
- The Caesar Cipher, a substitution cipher
- DES (Data Encryption Standard), a symmetric-key algorithm
- Enigma, a transposition cipher
- One-time pad


high_school_statistics

Question: A study is made to determine whether more hours of academic studying leads to higher point scoring by basketball players. In surveying 50 basketball players, it is noted that the 25 who claim to study the most hours have a higher point average than the 25 who study less. Based on this study, the coach begins requiring the players to spend more time studying. Which of the following is a correct statement?

Choices:
- While this study may have its faults, it still does prove causation.
- There could well be a confounding variable responsible for the seeming relationship.
- While this is a controlled experiment, the conclusion of the coach is not justified.
- To get the athletes to study more, it would be more meaningful to have them put in more practice time on the court to boost their point averages, as higher point averages seem to be associated with more study time.


clinical_knowledge

Question: When assessing a patient's breathing:

Choices:
- always remove dentures.
- look for chest movements and use a mirror to check for exhaled air.
- look for chest movements, listen for breath sounds, and feel for exhaled air on your cheek.
- assess for 30 seconds.


college_computer_science

Question: Which of the following is usually NOT represented in a subroutine's activation record frame for a stack-based programming language?

Choices:
- Values of local variables
- A heap area
- The return address
- Stack pointer for the calling activation record


anatomy

Question: Which of the following substances is found in greater quantity in exhaled air?

Choices:
- Carbon dioxide
- Carbon monoxide
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen


virology

Question: Genetic characteristics of the bunyavirus family include which one of the following?

Choices:
- Three segmented negative stranded RNA viruses with anti-sense expression
- Highly mutable RNA viruses
- Emerging viruses via arthropod vector
- Use an RT enzyme


logical_fallacies

Question: The concomitant variation fallacy is

Choices:
- attributing the cause of an event to a single cause when the cause is more complicated
- arguing that since two events happened at the same time, one event must have caused the other
- arguing that since one event preceded another event it must have caused the second event
- drawing a conclusion based on sign reasoning when there is not really a direct relationship between the alleged sign and the subject of the conclusion


human_aging

Question: The Hayflick number for human cells is

Choices:
- Unknown
- Between 45 and 55
- Less than 30
- More than 60


high_school_mathematics

Question: The area bounded by the parabola y = x^2 and the lines y = 1 and y = 9 equals

Choices:
- 8
- 84/3
- 64\sqrt{2}/3
- 104/3


college_physics

Question: A satellite of mass m orbits a planet of mass M in a circular orbit of radius R. The time required for one revolution is

Choices:
- independent of M
- proportional to m^(1/2)
- linear in R
- proportional to R^(3/2)


anatomy

Question: When you examine a patient who has suffered an unfavourable fracture of the body of the mandible, you would expect the

Choices:
- anterior fragment to be displaced downwards by the action of the digastric muscle.
- posterior fragment to be displaced anteriorly by the action of the lateral pterygoid muscle.
- anterior fragment to be displaced backwards by action of the temporalis muscle.
- posterior fragment to be displaced medially by action of the medial pterygoid muscle.


college_medicine

Question: Hydrogen ions are formed when:

Choices:
- glycogen becomes depleted.
- phosphocreatine breakdown occurs.
- pyruvate is converted to lactate.
- glycolysis is being used as a major means of resynthesising ATP.


college_physics

Question: Consider an electron in the n = 4, l = 1 state in hydrogen. Which of the following final states can NOT be reached by an allowed transition?

Choices:
- n = 3, l = 2
- n = 3, l = 1
- n = 3, l = 0
- n = 2, l = 0


high_school_geography

Question: The theory that the main purpose of a settlement or market town is to furnish goods and services to the surrounding market area is called the

Choices:
- urban hierarchy theory.
- central place theory.
- concentric zone model.
- multiplier effect.


high_school_us_history

Question:
This question refers to the following information.
"Lincoln was strongly anti-slavery, but he was not an abolitionist or a Radical Republican and never claimed to be one. He made a sharp distinction between his frequently reiterated personal wish that 'all men everywhere could be free' and his official duties as a legislator, congressman, and president in a legal and constitutional system that recognized the South's right to property in slaves. Even after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation he continued to declare his preference for gradual abolition. While his racial views changed during the Civil War, he never became a principled egalitarian in the manner of abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass or Wendell Phillips or Radical Republicans like Charles Sumner."
—Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial, 2010
Which of the following statements best describes Eric Foner's argument about President Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery?

Choices:
- President Lincoln was a consistent supporter of the abolitionist cause.
- President Lincoln was reluctant to be ideologically associated with advocates like Frederick Douglass.
- In his ambition to become president, Abraham Lincoln declared his desire to use his constitutional powers to end slavery.
- President Lincoln had continually changing views on slavery and abolition that did not always fit into the prevailing political categories.


business_ethics

Question: The ___________, otherwise known as _________ was launched in 1997 and is a global workplace standard that covers key labour rights such as working hours, forced labour and discrimination, with compliance being certified by independent auditors.

Choices:
- Social accountability standard, SA 8000
- Social accountability standard, SA 9000
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SA 8000
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SA 9000


college_medicine

Question: Glycogen breakdown in muscle initially results in the formation of:

Choices:
- glucose.
- glucose-1-phosphate.
- glucose-6-phosphate.
- glucose-1,6-diphosphate.


astronomy

Question: The name of the black hole in the center of our Milky Way is ...

Choices:
- Altair A*
- Alsephina A*
- Fomalhaut A*
- Sagittarius A*


logical_fallacies

Question: Which of the following fallacies happens when someone attributes the cause of an event to a simple cause when the cause is actually more complicated?

Choices:
- complex cause
- hasty generalization
- post hoc
- division