501 Critical Reading Questions

(Sean Pound) #1

  1. All of the following questions can be explicitly answered on the
    basis of the passage EXCEPT
    a. What is the ratio of the length of one’s hip to floor divided by
    knee to floor?
    b.What is the precise mathematical ratio of PHI?
    c. What is the ratio of the length of one’s shoulder to fingertips
    divided by elbow to fingertips?
    d.What is the ratio of the length of one’s head to the floor divided
    by shoulder’s to the floor?
    e.What is the ratio of each sunflower seed spiral rotation’s
    diameter to the next?

  2. According to both passages, the terms ancient Mystery Schools
    (Passage 1, line 43), early scientists(Passage 2, line 22), and ancients
    (Passage 2, line 46) signify what about the divine proportion?
    a. Early scholars felt that the Divine Proportion was a magical
    number.
    b.Early scholars found no scientific basis for the Divine
    Proportion.
    c. Early mystery writers used the Divine Proportion.
    d.Early followers of Pythagoras favored the Pythagorean theorem
    over the divine proportion.
    e.Early followers of Kepler used the Divine Proportion in
    astronomy.

  3. Which of the following is NOT true of the pentagon?
    a. It is considered both divine and magical by many cultures.
    b.It is a geometric figure with five equal sides meeting at five
    equal angles.
    c. It is a geometric figure whereby PHI is the ratio of any diagonal
    to any side.
    d.If you draw an inverted inner pentagon inside a pentagon, it is
    in PHI ratio to the initial outer pentagon.
    e.A polygon having five sides and five interior angles is called a
    pentagon.


Questions 382–390 are based on the following passage.
The following passage describes the composition and nature of ivory.
Ivory skin, ivory teeth, Ivory Soap, Ivory Snow—we hear “ivory” used
all the time to describe something fair, white, and pure. But where
does ivory come from, and what exactly is it? Is it natural or man-

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