Art/Music
The enharmonic equivalent of D flat is
What is C sharp?
The physical or biochemical characteristics of an organism that result from the interaction between genotype and the environment is known as
What is a phenotype?
There are 6 identical blue socks, 9 identical white socks, and 2 identical brown socks in a drawer, not matched together. How many ways can you get a matched pair if you select two in the dark?
a. 36
b. 52
c. 17
d. 58
e. 108
What is 52?
The phrase “making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood” contains
a. simile
b. hyperbole
c. personification
d. synecdoche
e. synesthesia
What is personification?
Economics assumes that people make choices by comparing the benefits of each action with the opportunity costs of that action and then select the action that produces the greatest benefit. In order for this to hold, which of the following assumptions must be TRUE?
a. Only benefits are accurate.
b. Only costs are accurate.
c. People are rational.
d. People are irrational.
e. People pay attention to prices.
What is option C?
A trill is an example of a(n)
a. range
b. dynamics
c. ornament
d. form
e. accent
What is ornament?
The period immediately following the Holocene is called the Anthropocene by some scholars; historians often call this period the beginning of the
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Consider the following data: 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37. What are the mean and median of these data?
a. 22 and 23
b. 23
c. 23 and 21
d. 21
e. 21 and 23
What is 21?
The Romantics especially valued
a. cheerfulness
b. industry
c. rigor
d. inspiration
e. independence
What is inspiration?
A firm is said to possess market power if it faces what type of demand curve?
What is downward sloping?
In collecting cast-off junk to create sculptures for the 66 Signs of Neon exhibit, Noah Purifoy worked in a method MOST like that of which artist?
a. Richard Serra
b. Robert Rauschenberg
c. Gustave Courbet
d. Agnes Denes
e. Jackson Pollock
Who is Robert Rauschenburg?
What is a key test of the effectiveness of atmosphere/ocean/sea-ice general circulation models in predicting future climate conditions?
a. assessing the accuracy of past climate characterizations
b. measuring the extent of sea ice coverage at the equator
c. comparing estimated CO2 concentrations against current levels
d. testing the size of different biological populations
e. refining the model to predict historical climate events
What is "assessing the accuracy of past climate characterizations?"
Assume the average height of people in a major metropolitan area is 69.5 inches, with a standard deviation of 1.5 inches. How tall would someone need to be in order to have a z-score of –4?
a. 62 inches
b. 63 inches
c. 63.5 inches
d. 64 inches
e. 64.5 inches
What is 63.5 inches?
In the novel Solar Storms, each of these characters bears deep physical or metaphorical scars EXCEPT
a. Henriet
b Loretta
c. Angel
d. Hannah
e. Tommy Grove
Who is "Tommy Grove?"
If the velocity of money does not change and
lower price level leads to a higher level of real
GDP, which of the following is TRUE?
a. The market price for individual goods is high.
b. Aggregate demand is low.
c. Aggregate supply is low.
d. Net exports are positive.
e. The quantity of money is fixed or has increased.
What is "the quantity of money is fixed or has increased?"
Which of the following was one of the first composers to succeed in working “freelance”?
a. Antonio Vivaldi
b. Claude Debussy
c. Ferde Grofé
d. Joseph Haydn
e. Ludwig van Beethoven
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Which statement about the Little Ice Age is FALSE?
a. Its effects varied across the African continent.
b. China experienced cooling temperatures.
c. Cold weather in Florida slowed the process of colonialism.
d. South Asia experienced unusually intense monsoon rains.
e. Frozen seas in the north blocked the Dutch Empire’s attempt to find a maritime route to China.
What is "South Asia experienced unusually intense monsoon rains?"
What is Maria’s monthly mortgage payment if she takes out a 25-year mortgage of $200,000 at 3.9% annual interest that compounds monthly? Round to the nearest dollar.
a. $650
b. $835
c. $963
d. $1,045
e. $1,114
What is $1,045?
In the poem by Amanda Gorman, "Earthrise" refers to
a. water levels rising due to climate change
b. protest groups arising around the world
c. evolution in the Anthropocene age
d. the earth as seen from the moon
e. the quest for ecological balance
What is "the earth as seen from the moon?"
As stated in the USAD Economics Resource Guide, all of the following are alternative policy responses proposed to deal with climate change EXCEPT
a. doing nothing and hoping for the best
b. unilateral intervention
c. protesting climate change legislation
d. multilateralism
e. negotiating over climate targets
What is "protesting climate change legislation?"
Mark Dion’s artwork A Meter of Jungle, when originally on display, would be BEST called
a. kinetic sculpture
b. a steady-state ecosystem
c. a labor of taxonomic classification
d. a work of civil disobedience
e. institutional critique
What is "a labor of taxonomic classification?"
According to the USAD Social Science Resource Guide, which two works of Charles Dickens especially depict vivid scenes of the Industrial Revolution?
a. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) and A Christmas Carol (1843)
b. A Child’s History of England (1851-1853) and Oliver Twist (1837-39)
c. A Christmas Carol (1843) and Oliver Twist (1837-39)
d. Oliver Twist (1837-39) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
e. A Child’s History of England (1851-1853) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
What are A Christmas Carol (1843) and Oliver Twist (1837-39)?
The median for a normal distribution is 52. What percent of data is below 48 if the variance is 16?
a. 5%
b. 10%
c. 16%
d. 18%
e. 20%
What is 16%?
In Solar Storms, Agnes says that Angel is like the
a. “breeze that cools the forest”
b. “otter gliding through the river”
c. “new leaves unfolding”
d. “turtle waiting for the sun”
e. “water going back to itself”
What is option E?
International trade and investment creates interdependency between countries that can help reduce the risk of war and increase economic growth. However, trade is undertaken by private merchants who consider only their own benefits. This implies that international trade has a _____.
a. tragedy of the commons
b. free rider problem
c. logrolling problem
d. negative externality
e. positive externality
What is positive externality?