Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Any notion of justice in the fortunes of artists is _____: works of equal value and quality produce quite different returns or no returns at all.
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For all the _____ the new CEO has received from the press recently, her staff have a decidedly less rosy view of her.
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In her works, she (i)_____ confidence. She gets excessively (ii)_____ to authorities, even when rejecting their views.
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There is frequently a protracted time interval between the introduction of an innovative musical composition and its public acceptance; the concert-going public often spurns the _____ in favor of the familiar for a prolonged period.
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With the emergence of scientific history-writing in the late nineteenth century, several authors sought to ignore the glowing myths surrounding George Washington and uncover the human being within, but their biographies were still (i)_____ enough that Washington remained a marbled and remote figure. Indeed, by the 1920s Washington has become such (ii)_____ personage that inevitably someone had to go to the other extreme and try to (iii)_____ the legend.
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The media have constantly disparaged the governor's competence and have found a public only too eager to applaud their _____.
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The concert hall`s suspended ceiling is two-inch-thick plaster that reflects low-frequency sound energy; similarly, all wall surfaces are angled and shaped to _____ sound from the stage throughout the audience area.
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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The author the passage mentions the work of Hrdy primarily to
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage indicates that Peterson identifies which of the following as obstacles faced by the women included in her study?
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The (i)______ of the entrepreneur that the microfinance boom has helped foster is understandably appealing. But thinking that everyone is, and should be, an entrepreneur can encourage a tendency to (ii)_____ the virtues of larger businesses and the income that a steady job can provide.
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In the highlighted portion of the passage, the author assumes that
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The passage implies that Du Bois attributed which of the following beliefs to Spencerian sociologists?
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