ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension Practice Test 408226 Results

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1
Deadweight tonnage is a measure of how much weight a ship is carrying or can safely carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo, fuel, fresh water, ballast water, provisions, passengers, and crew.
Which of the following does not go into the calculation of deadweight tonnage?
84% Answer Correctly
the weight of the ship
the weight of cargo
the weight of provisions
the weight of fuel
Solution
According to this passage, deadweight tonnage is a measure of how much weight a ship is carrying or can carry and does not include the weight of the ship.
2
Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. The extreme opposite of endemism is cosmopolitan distribution.
Based on this passage, which of the following statements is false?
47% Answer Correctly
An organism that is indigenous to Australia can be found in India.
An organism that is endemic cannot have a cosmopolitan distribution.
An organism that is endemic to Australia can be found in India.
Endemism requires an organism be unique to a defined geographic location.
Solution
You don't necessarily need to know the definitions of the words in a paragraph to figure out the correct answer. Just go through the answers one by one and logically compare the answer to the the paragraph and eliminate the answers that aren't supported by the facts.
3
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Desiderius Erasmus
What does this proverb mean?
61% Answer Correctly
It is more advantageous to be able to see, even a little bit, than to be blind.
Someone who can see will be able to take advantage of others who cannot see.
Even someone with minor ability is considered special by those with no ability at all.
It would be easy for someone who can see to become king in a land of people who cannot see.
4
Conan of Aquilonia is a collection of four linked fantasy short stories written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The stories were originally published in Fantastic for August 1972, July 1973, July 1974, and February, 1975. The collected stories were intended for book publication by Lancer Books, but this edition never appeared due to Lancer's bankruptcy. The first book edition was issued in paperback by Ace Books in May 1977 and the first British edition was published by Sphere Books in October 1978.
Which publication did not publish content from this series of short stories?
78% Answer Correctly
Fantastic
Sphere Books
Lancer Books
Ace Books
Solution
The Lancer Books edition of Conan of Aquilonia never appeared due to Lancer's bankruptcy.
5
In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal development of a single language over time.
Which of the following would be the most useful for someone using the comparative method in linguistics when studying a particular language?
66% Answer Correctly
An ancient text written in the language.
Two editions of the same text written one-hundred years apart.
The same text written in two different dialects of the language.
Old folk songs that have been passed down among generations of speakers of the language.
Solution
The wrong answers all provide insight into how a single language has changed over time while the text written in two different dialects offers an opportunity to compare languages that share a common ancestor.