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Practice Ftce Test
Practice Ftce Test
1. Unfairly, the ____ of the cost has been paid by just a few members of the group.
A: gift
B: brunt
C: choice
D: divestiture
2. The committee seemed more concerned with long-term plans than with solving ____ immediate problems.
A: apathetic
B: ludicrous
C: classic
D: acute
3. Many ideas that used to be considered outrageous have become part of the _____.
A: mainstream
B: counterculture
C: article
D: gentry
4. The public was shocked when it became clear that Dr. Jackson's miraculous claims were in fact _____.
A: ersatz
B: laughable
C: bogus
D: jealous
5. After war was declared, the army still needed a couple of days to _____.
A: mobilize
B: reconstitute
C: adjudicate
D: remonstrate
8. The story is set in Boston, in colonial times when much of the land was undeveloped.
A: Correct as is
B: Boston in colonial times when
C: Boston, in colonial times:
D: Boston, in colonial times,
9. Gina had exams in the following classes, math, history, and science.
A: Correct as is
B: classes: math, history, and
C: classes, math, history, and
D: classes; math, history, and
10. C. A comma is not necessary, but if it is used it should be inside the quotation marks.
Answer Key
3. B. The narrator begins by describing the shape of the river, then moves on to the wind and the logs in the stream, and
eventually narrows his focus to the camp itself.
4. C. The narrator mentions the first green shoots appearing in the trees.
7. C. The intent of the passage is to attract the reader so that a story can be told.
8. A. The mention of stumps and floating logs indicates that this is a lumberjack camp.
10. B. The narrator is describing a scene which is clearly new to the reader.
Answer Key
3. A. 17 is the next greatest number that is divisible only by one and itself.
4. A. Remember the order of operations: parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.
5. D. This number can be found by listing the successive multiples for each number until a common multiple is found.
6. B. The length of each side of a cube can be found by finding the cube root of the volume, in this case 3 inches. The
perimeter of a square is the length multiplied by four.
8. D. Find the total points scored by multiplying the average by the number of games. Then subtract the given scores from the
total points scored.
9. C. First multiply the 5 across the parentheses, then add three and divide by 5 on both sides.
10. B. The other factor of the polynomial would also be (x -#8221; 3).
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
The time was the year 1872, and the place a bend in the river above a long pond terminating in a dam. Beyond this dam, and
on a flat lower than it, stood a two-story mill structure. Save for a small, stump-dotted clearing, and the road that led from it, all
else was forest. Here in the bottom-lands, following the course of the stream, the hardwoods grew dense, their uppermost
branches just beginning to spray out in the first green of spring. Farther back, where the higher lands arose from the swamp,
could be discerned the graceful frond of white pines and hemlock, and the sturdy tops of Norways and spruce. A strong wind
blew up the length of the pond. It ruffled the surface of the water, swooping down in fan-shaped, scurrying cat's- paws, turning
the dark-blue surface as one turns the nap of velvet. At the upper end of the pond it even succeeded in raising quite
respectable wavelets, which LAP LAP LAPPED eagerly against a barrier of floating logs that filled completely the mouth of the
inlet river. And behind this barrier were other logs, and yet others, as far as the eye could see, so that the entire surface of the
stream was carpeted by the brown timbers. A man could have walked down the middle of that river as down a highway.
On the bank, and in a small woods-opening, burned two fires, their smoke ducking and twisting under the buffeting of the wind.
The first of these fires occupied a shallow trench dug for its accommodation, and was overarched by a rustic framework from
which hung several pails, kettles, and pots. An injured-looking, chubby man in a battered brown derby hat moved here and
there. He divided his time between the utensils and an indifferent youth--his "cookee." The other, and larger, fire centered a
rectangle composed of tall racks, built of saplings and intended for the drying of clothes. Two large tents gleamed white among
the trees.
1. The tone of this passage is:
A: interrogative
B: exclamatory
C: descriptive
D: epic
2. 9(3 ½) =
A: 27 3/4
B: 31.5
C: 27 1/2
D: 30 3/4
6. What is the perimeter of each side of a cube with a volume of 27 cubic inches?
A: 9 inches
B: 12 inches
C: 14 square inches
D: 5 inches
8. Andy averaged 17 points per game during five games of the basketball season. If he scored 12, 24, 20, and 18 in four of the
games, how many points did he score in the fifth?
A: 20
B: 17
C: 15
D: 21