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GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS®

Practice General Test #1
Answer Key for Sections 1-4

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Revised GRE® Practice Test Number 1

Answer Key for Section 1. Verbal Reasoning. 25 Questions.

Question 1

Answer: A. In various parts of the world, civilizations that could not make iron from ore fashioned tools out of fragments of iron from meteorites.

Question 2

Answer: A. An increased focus on the importance of engaging the audience in a narrative

Question 3

Answer: C. speak to

Question 4

Answer: A. People with access to an electric washing machine typically wore their clothes many fewer times before washing them than did people without access to electric washing machines.

Question 5

Answer: C. insular
Answer in context: In the 1950’s, the country’s inhabitants were insular: most of them knew very little about foreign countries.

Question 6

Answer: E. insincere
Answer in context: Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been insincere.

Question 7

Answer: A. maturity
Answer in context: It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of maturity.

Question 8

Answer: C. comparing two scholarly debates and discussing their histories

Question 9

Answer: D. identify a reason for a certain difference in the late 1970’s between the origins debate and the debate over American women’s status

Question 10

Answer: D. Their approach resembled the approach taken in studies by Wood and by Mullin in that they were interested in the

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