McGraw-Hill Education GRE 2019

Question 7 is based on the passage below. Select one answer choice.

On a certain examination, more students in class A scored above

80 percent than did the students in any other class. On the same

examination, more students in class B scored above 90 percent than

did the students in any other class.

7. The previous statements best support which of the following conclusions?
   A Students in class B had a higher average score on the examination
   than did the students in class A.
   B More students in class A scored between 80 percent and 90 percent
   than in class B.
   C Class A has more students than class B.
   D More students in class A scored above 95 percent than in class B.
   E The median score for class A is above 80 percent

Questions 8 to 10 refer to the passage below. For each question, select one answer

choice, unless the instructions state otherwise.

Traditionally viewed as the mindless defamations of mutinous

teenagers, graffiti has rarely been the subject of serious scholarly

inquiry. Fortunately, the discovery of graffiti on the walls at the

archeological site of Pompeii has been the impetus for a wholescale

reconsideration of the relevance of graffiti to archeological and

historical studies. Yes, graffiti is (and probably always was) mostly done

by hormone-addled teenagers, and yes, the concise nature of graffiti

does not lend itself to the type of exegesis to which most academics

are inclined. But graffiti, especially graffiti on the walls at a cherished

historical site, can lend insight into the powerless voices that would

otherwise have been censored by most ancient societies. By examining

a culture’s graffiti, we can understand the discontents of that culture

in a more organic context—one free of the posturing that is all too

pervasive in preserved historical documents. Perhaps graffiti will

not tell us the purpose of a law or the mischievous family dramas of

ancient governments, but, perhaps more than any document can, it

provides us with an unfiltered view of how society at large reacted to

forces that were largely out of its control.

8. The passage is primarily concerned with
   A explaining the appearance of graffiti
   B arguing that scholars should take graffiti more seriously
   C suggesting that graffiti was censored by ancient societies
   D indicating the hypocrisy of contemporary archeology
   E evaluating a scholar’s position

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