Admission Tests GRE General Test Sample Questions:

1. Robert Philip argues that the advent of recorded music has directed performance style into a search for greater precision and perfection, with a consequent loss of spontaneity and warmth. Various expressive devices once common in classical music have been almost outlawed, including portamento (sliding from one note to another on a stringed instrument), playing the piano with the hands not quite synchronized, and flexibility of tempo.
Philip fully documents these changes. However, other forces independent of recording were also at work. For example, the freedom of tempo so valued by Philip was. in its time, both a necessary expedient and disastrously abused. Recording alone did not cause the reaction against it. although hearing a particularly unintelligent use of it on disc may have reinforced the prejudice.
Hie author would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the "devices"?

A) They are not useful tools for musical expressivity.
B) At least some of them have been used inappropriately in the past.
C) Increases in the technical proficiency of performers have made their use superfluous.
D) The advent of recorded music had little or no effect on their popularity.
E) Their use cannot usually be detected in a recording, even when they were used in the recorded performance.

2. The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared_________-

A) beguiled
B) complacent
C) phlegmatic
D) unsated

3.
The right circular cylindrical tank above has inner dimensions of radius 4 feet and height 10 feet. What is the greatest possible distance, in feet, between 2 points inside the tank?
A)

B)

C)

D)

E)

A) Option A
B) Option B
C) Option D
D) Option C
E) Option E

4. Many environmentalists who revere nature would find the intellectual traditions of Rousseau. Kropotkin. and Jefterson much more compatible with their vision than that of Marx, who_________the domination of nature by humans.

A) distrusted
B) abhorred
C) underestimated
D) revealed
E) commended

5. II cost a certain manufacturer a total of S7.8O0.OO to make and sell 6,500 units of a certain product. If the manufacturer sold each of the 6.500 units for S3.50. what was the manufacturer's profit per unit of the product? (Profit is equal to the selling price minus the cost.)

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