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NEW QUESTION 164
Writing for the New York Times in 1971. Saul Braun claimed that - todays superhero is about as much like his predecessors as today's child is like his parents." In an unprecedented article on the state of American comics,
"Shazam! Here Comes Captain Relevant. Braun wove a story of an industry whose former glory producing jingoistic fantasies of superhuman power in the 1930s and 1940s had given way to a canny interest in revealing the power structures against which ordinary people and heroes alike struggled following World War II Quoting a description of a course on *Comparative Comics" at Brown University, he wrote, 'New heroes are different-they ponder moral questions, have emotional differences, and are just as neurotic as real people.
Captain America openly sympathizes with campus radicals.. Lois Lane apes John Howard Griffin and turns herself black to study racism, and everybody battles to save the environment."" Five years earlier. Esquire had presaged Braun s claims about comic books: generational appeal, dedicating a spread to the popularity of superhero comics among university students in their special 'College Issue." As one student explained. "My favorite is the Hulk. I identify with him, he's the outcast against the institution.'1 Only months after the NW York Times article saw print. Rolling Stone published a six-page expose on the inner workings of Marvel Comics, while Ms. Magazine emblazoned Wonder Woman on the cover of its premier issue-declaring s Wonder Woman for President'' no less-and devoted an article to the origins of the latter-day feminist superhero.
Where little more than a decade before comics had signaled the moral and aesthetic degradation of American culture, by 1971 they had come of age as America's "native art::: taught on Ivy League campuses, studied by European scholars and filmmakers, and translated and sold around the world, they were now taken up as a new generation's critique of American society. The concatenation of these sentiments among such diverse publications revealed that the growing popularity and public interest in comics (and comic-book superheroes) spanned a wide demographic spectrum, appealing to middle-class urbamtes, college-age men. members of the counterculture, and feminists alike. At the heart of this newfound admiration for comics lay a glaring yet largely unremarked contradiction: the cultural regeneration of the comic-book medium was made possible by the revamping of a key American fantasy figure, the superhero, even as that figure was being lauded for its realism"" and social relevance."" As the title of Braun's article suggests, in the early 1970s, "relevance" became a popular buzzword denoting a shift in comic-book content from oblique narrative metaphors for social problems toward direct representations of racism and sexism, urban blight, and political corruption.
The author of the passage talks about Wonder Woman primarily to
- A. provide an example of a change in the public perception of comics" characters
- B. identify the gender stereotypes in comics against which feminists struggled
- C. contest the claim that superheroes were generally portrayed as outcasts
- D. suggest the extent to which the comics industry remained a male-dominated field
- E. note a significant improvement in the way women were represented in comics
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 165
Pumping at a constant rate, a certain gasoline pump can fill an empty 50-gallon tank in 2 minutes. If the pump pumped gasoline into the 50-gallon tank at the constant rate for 1.5 minutes and the tank had 10 gallons of gasoline in it when the pump began pumping, what percent of the volume of the 50-gallon tank was filled with gasoline at the end of the 1.5 minutes?
Answer:
Explanation:
% 95s
NEW QUESTION 166
The list price of a certain snowblower is S600.0O. At Store At the sale price of the snowblower is 10 percent less than its list price, and there is no sales tax. At Store y the sale price of the snowblower is 15 percent less than its list price, plus there is a sales tax of 5 percent of the sale price. If the cost of the snowblower is equal to its sale price plus any applicable sales tax. how much greater is the cost of the snowblower at Store X than at Store Y ?
Answer:
Explanation:
$4.5
NEW QUESTION 167
Lohr's (i)_________the trappings of literary celebrity creates a Romantic aura tor him: by distancing himself from all public discourse about himself or his work. Lohr becomes an even greater, albeit more (ii)_________.
celebrity than most authors manage in all their interviews and memoirs.
- A. inability to renounce
- B. refusal to wear
- C. appealing
- D. renowned
- E. eagerness to understand
- F. mysterious
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION 168
DIATRIBE : BITTERNESS ::
- A. encomium : reproach
- B. recapitulation : brevity
- C. dictum : indolence
- D. concordance : contrariety
- E. polemic : consonance
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
This is a "defining characteristic" analogy. A DIATRIBE is a speech characterized by BITTERNESS. A recapitulation is a summary or synopsis, and hence is characterized by brevity. In both cases, the second word describes the first.
NEW QUESTION 169
Exhibit.
- A. The two quantities are equal
- B. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- C. Quantity B is greater.
- D. Quantity A is greater.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 170
A box is being lowered lo the ground by a machine. The distance from the bottom of the box to the ground is initially 244 centimeters, and the distance decreases at a constant rate of 2 centimeters per second until the bottom of the box reaches the ground. If the distance is graphed in the w-plane. where v represents the distance, in centimeters, from the bottom of the box to the ground after X seconds, what is the .x-intercept of the graph?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 171
In Cleopatra: A Life. Schitf_________Cleopatra, stripping away the accretions of myth built up around the Egyptian queen and plucking off the imaginative embroiderings of Shakespeare and Shaw.
- A. elucidates
- B. denigrates
- C. aggrandizes
- D. demystifies
- E. embellishes
- F. manipulates
Answer: B,D
NEW QUESTION 172
Ii is irue lhal science, and more particularly scientists._________cherished paradigms with great reluctance and that when they do. scientific revolutions may result.
- A. cede
- B. relinquish
- C. dismantle
- D. unify
- E. share
- F. embrace
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION 173
COMPLACENT:
- A. critical
- B. persistent
- C. involved
- D. discontented
- E. disagreeable
Answer: D
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
A COMPLACENT person is "contented in an unconcerned or self-satisfied way" - quite the opposite of a discontented person.
NEW QUESTION 174
The village of Vestmannaeyjar, in the far northern country of Iceland, is as bright and clean and up-to-date as any American or Canadian suburb. It is located on the island of Heimaey, just off the mainland. One January night in 1973, however, householders were shocked from their sleep. In some backyards red-hot liquid was spurting from the ground.
Flaming "skyrockets" shot up and over the houses. The island's volcano, Helgafell, silent for seven thousand years, was violently erupting! Luckily, the island's fishing fleet was in port, and within twenty-four hours almost everyone was ferried to the mainland. But then the agony of the island began in earnest. As in a nightmare, fountains of burning lava spurted three hundred feet high. Black, baseball-size cinders rained down. An evilsmelling, eye-burning, throat-searing cloud of smoke and gas erupted into the air, and a river of lava flowed down the mountain. The constant shriek of escaping steam was punctuated by ear- splitting explosions. As time went on, the once pleasant village of Vestmannaeyjar took on a weird aspect.
Its street lamps still burning against the long Arctic night, the town lay under a thick blanket of cinders. All that could be seen above the ten-foot black drifts were the tips of street signs. Some houses had collapsed under the weight of cinders; others had burst into flames as the heat ignited their oil storage tanks. Lighting the whole lurid scene, fire continued to shoot from the mouth of the looming volcano. The eruption continued for six months. Scientists and reporters arrived from around the world to observe the awesome natural event. But the town did not die that easily. In July, when the eruption ceased, the people of Heimaey Island returned to assess the chances of rebuilding their homes and lives. They found tons of ash covering the ground. The Icelanders are a tough people, however, accustomed to the strange and violent nature of their Arctic land. They dug out their homes. They even used the cinders to build new roads and airport runways. Now the new homes of Heimaey are warmed from water pipes heated by molten lava.
Black cinders fell that were the size of ...
- A. footballs
- B. baseballs
- C. golf balls
- D. hail-stones
- E. pebbles
Answer: B
Explanation:
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NEW QUESTION 175
SWEAR : OATH ::
- A. obey : rule
- B. follow : leader
- C. solve : problem
- D. sign : contract
- E. issue : warning
Answer: D
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
This is a "process and product" analogy. You take, or SWEAR, an OATH. Similarly, you execute, or sign, a contract.Strengthening the analogy is that both actions (swearing an oath and signing a contract) are evidence of a promise or commitment for the future.
NEW QUESTION 176
It is nn ironic reversal that just those politicians who most vociferously lambasted the distorting complexities of the country's tax system are now the ones_________an agreement that worsens the mess.
- A. espousing
- B. negotiating
- C. eschewing
- D. championing
- E. ignoring
- F. discounting
Answer: A,D
NEW QUESTION 177
PASSIVITY:
- A. confidence
- B. lack of restraint
- C. vitality
- D. aggression
- E. disrespect
Answer: D
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
One meaning of PASSIVITY is submission (the condition of being submissive) the opposite of aggression.
NEW QUESTION 178
The poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African Americans of the southern United States. Although Dunbar's works were both popular with readers am! acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the poet James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the
1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psyclwlogical. and historical dimensions of Dunbar's works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning Litrary critics' evaluations of Dunbar's poetry?
- A. In the period between the First World War and the 1970s, critics did not commonly evaluate Dunbar's works in terms of psychological and historical considerations.
- B. In the 1970s, scholars began to reevaluate Dunbar's work in the light of James Weldon Johnson's criticism of the limitations of dialect poetry.
- C. A reversal of a negative critical trend led to wider popularity of Dunbar's works among the reading public in the 1970s.
- D. During Dunbar's lifetime, critics did not commonly evaluate his works according to aesthetic criteria.
- E. Negative critical evaluations of Dunbar's poetry on social grounds caused his work to become less popular with the reading public in the period following the First World War.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 179
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