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GED Language Arts, Reading Practice Test Answers
1. B
An analogy is an extended comparison, broader than simile or metaphor. In the first paragraph, she draws an extended analogy between the instruments of torture used in the Inquisition—rack, thumbscrew, instruments of torture with iron teeth—and the machinery used in the factories. A is not correct; she does not make an analogy using the legal system, though she attacks the laws. The gifts of the public she considers inadequate, but she does not use them in an analogy, making C wrong. She does not mention the Industrial Revolution, eliminating D. E is also wrong; the government is not compared to anything.
2. E
“We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now …” indicates that the townspeople are the ones on trial. The factory owners are not mentioned in the general group. A, therefore, is incorrect. The speech does not refer to the foremen or the locked doors, making B incorrect as well. C is incorrect; there is no condemnation of parents’ sending their children to the factories. The unions are upheld as a positive force for safety for the working class, so D is inaccurate.
3. D
“The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred,” she says. A is incorrect; Rose does not use the dead women and herself as a contrast. B is also wrong; the difference between the foremen and workers is not her subject. She does not make a distinction between the laws and their application, so C is incorrect. The subject of her speech is not the contrast between wages of workers and owners, and E is also incorrect.
4. E
The second paragraph begins, “This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in the city.” Therefore, A is incorrect; deaths are not rare. Rose says, “Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers. Every year thousands of us are maimed.” These words also apply to B, which is also incorrect. There is no indication of the girls’ carelessness; Rose refers to the firetrap structures, so C can be eliminated. Nor is there any indication of a sleeping foreman, making D incorrect.
5. B
Rose concludes her speech with the sentence “The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.” She tries even in the face of death to strengthen the union cause. A is inaccurate; she does not mention the newspapers. Response 3 can also be eliminated; she makes no reference to the owners or to legal redress. She does not fault the training that the girls receive, making the fourth option incorrect. Although she does call for more generous gifts, she does not think that will solve the problem, so choice 5 is wrong.
GED Language Arts, Writing Practice Test Answers
1. B
Commas belong inside the terms in quotation marks. A is incorrect; the word is being distinguished as a slang or insider term and thus requires quotation marks. C is also wrong. The word temporary is correctly spelled as written. D is incorrect. The comma is required because it introduces an appositive phrase that defines the term before the comma. E, likewise, is not correct. The United States is the name of a particular country; as such, it is a proper noun and, therefore, requires capitalization.
2. D
This is a question related to parallel structure. Employs and generating need to be parallel verbs. The best way to achieve that is by making both present tense. A is incorrect; the staffing industry is a single unit not requiring a plural. Likewise, in B, the term is singular and needs to remain so, making this a false answer. C cannot be done without adding more words, which is awkward. E is incorrect; this is not an interrogative statement but a declarative one requiring a period.
3. E
The problem in the sentence is the wrong homonym used. The word their is possessive, which is required in the sentence. They’re is a contract of they are, and makes no sense. Although it is common usage to use since when stating a reason, the word is best used as indicating passage of time. Because is used correctly, making A wrong. C is also wrong. Good and well are often confused, but good is correct here. D makes skills singular; this is not a correct choice. One hopes for a worker who has more than one skill.
4. B
The issue is antecedent agreement; the pronoun they requires a plural noun, employees. A is incorrect because the original creates a disagreement between the noun and the pronoun to which it refers. C is incorrect; it does not deal with the real issue and creates a further complication by adding a disagreement between subject and verb. D is also wrong. Omitting the hyphen in full-time and adding a disagreement between subject and verb does not correct the real problem. This is also true of E, which merely removes the hyphen.
5. C
The problem with the way the sentence is written is that it creates a run-on via a comma splice. By using a semicolon to show that the thoughts of both sentences are related, the problem is eliminated. A is incorrect; the original contains a comma splice. B is also wrong. It does not solve the comma splice and creates a pronoun antecedent problem. D is incorrect because it creates a subject-verb agreement problem. E, likewise, creates a subject-verb agreement problem in the first clause and is incorrect.
GED Math Practice Test Answers
1. A
Candidate A’s vote percentage is
the number of votes that he obtained divided by the total number of votes cast.
Then, multiply that decimal by 100 to convert the decimal into a percentage.
Therefore, Candidate A’s Vote is: Percentage 
=51.8%
2. D
The perimeter (P) of the quadrilateral is simply the sum of its sides, or
Combine like terms by adding the variables (m terms) together and then adding the constants resulting in:
In this application, it appears that some of the variables do not have a number in front of them; however, the absence of a coefficient indicates multiplication by 1 hence m = 1m, x = 1x, and so on.
3. D
First add the two straight 150 yard portions. Also, note that the distance around the two semi-circle turns combine to form the circumference of a circle. The radius (r) of that circle is half of the dimension shown as the width of the track, or 15 yards. Now, taking the formula for the circumference of a circle, 2pr and adding it to the length of the two straight portions of the track, we have
.
Answer D is the closest approximation to this calculated answer.
4. C
To see this, consider the following table, which shows the numbers of coins added to the first few squares, and the equivalent powers of 2:
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Square |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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Coins |
1 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
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Power of 2 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
The table shows that in this series, the number of coins on each square represents consecutive powers of 2, since the number doubles with each consecutive square. However, the series of powers begins with 0 for the first square, so that for the 64th square, the number of coins will be 263.
5. D
The slopes of perpendicular lines are reciprocals of opposite sign. For example, in the figure below, line A has a slope of -1/2, while line B has a slope of 2.
GED Science Practice Test Answers
1. A
Evolutionary fitness is a measure of the ability to transmit genes to subsequent generations. As such, it is characterized by the ability to produce offspring. Although the male wolf described in choice A died young, he lived long enough to produce 4 offspring, more than any of the animals described in the other choices. Therefore, his genes have the greatest chance of being passed on. It is important to realize that evolutionary “success,” or fitness, simply requires an organism to live long enough to reproduce, and is measured exclusively by reproductive success.
2. D
The terms accuracy and precision, often used interchangeably in informal speech, have specific meanings as scientific terms. Accuracy describes how close a measurement is to the actual dimension that is being measured. In this case, both measurements have the same accuracy. Precision is the degree of exactness that characterizes a measurement, or the number of significant figures with which it can be reported. Nancy’s measurement is the more precise of the two, because she has reported the length to the nearest millimeter, whereas Mark’s measurement is to the nearest centimeter. Note that the ruler cannot measure the length to a greater precision than that which Nancy has specified because the millimeter is its smallest division.
3. B
The cell body, containing the nucleus, is the control center of the cell and the site of its metabolic activity. Dendrites, which extend from this cell body, receive signals from other cells in the form of neurotransmitters. This triggers an electrical impulse, which travels down the axon to the next cell on the route of the signal. At the end of the axon, neurotransmitters are again released, cross the synapse, and act upon the following cell.
4. A
The cell body contains the nucleus, as shown in the diagram. In all eukaryotic cells (cells containing a nucleus), the nucleus is the site where the chromosomes reside. The chromosomes carry the genes, which direct the activities of the neuron.
5. E
Information flow is in one direction, moving from dendrite to axon within a neuron, and then crossing from axon to dendrite to move from cell to cell at the synapse. The electrical impulse that carries information along the axon is assisted by myelin, but there is no myelin at the synapse, so it can have no role there. The flow of information across the synapse is achieved through the medium of neurotransmitters, which diffuse across the synapse to interact with dendritic receptors on the other side.
GED Social Studies Practice Test Answers
1. A
The Mayan Empire collapsed internally, whereas the other civilizations were conquered by the Spanish. The Incan Empire was the last to fall, making B an incorrect choice. None of the empires was located in North America, as the head of the chart makes clear, so C is not valid. The Mayans were not conquered by Spain, as the other two empires were. D is thus incorrect. The final choice, E, covers information from outside the chart; still, it was not the only empire that offered human sacrifice, as students may recall from their general knowledge, making this an incorrect choice.
2. C
The Spanish conquistadors were active in both Central and South America during the sixteenth century. A is incorrect; Portugal was active in Brazil, but that location is not mentioned in the chart. The Mayan empire is older than both Aztec and Incan civilizations, making B incorrect. There is no indication that the Incan warriors in Peru tried to assist the Aztec of Mexico when they battled the Spanish more than a decade before another conquistador would arrive in Peru. E cannot be known from the chart, but it is false; Mayan peoples live in Guatemala.
3. B
The railroad, which required only 6 to 8 days, offered a 10- to 20-day advantage over all other modes of transporting goods or people. A is an incorrect choice because a steamboat to New Orleans combined with a packet ship to New York required 28 days. The route across the Erie Canal required 18 days, making C also incorrect. The keelboat, used in the earliest part of the nineteenth century, was only part of the cumbersome 52-day route that required both water and overland travel to reach New York.
4. E
Using keelboat and wagon required 52 days of travel. Combining steamboat, canal, and railroad cut the time by more than 30 days, a larger amount of time saved than any other new development. Steamboat and packet required 28 days of travel, while the railroad took 6 to 8 days, a savings of 20 to 22 days, making A incorrect. Likewise, B is wrong; while the canal took 18 days, the railroad took 6 to 8 days, savings 10 to 12 days. The canal route took 18 days while the steamboat and packet required 28 days, thus saving 10 days and making C wrong. The keelboat and wagon is first chronologically and cannot have been a predecessor; thus D is incorrect.
5. C
The men had expected their invention to end war; instead, it became a new weapon. A is often cited as a reference to the Spanish-American War of 1898. Thus it is incorrect. The Wright brothers, hoping that their invention would put an end to war, would likely not express the idea in B. Rickenbacker was a famous World War I ace pilot, but given the Wright brothers’ desires for peace and their own fame, they probably would not be interested in meeting him. Thus D is incorrect. E is probably an exaggerated response; the Wright brothers did not regret their invention or experiments.
by Alanna Traylor
Last Updated: 05/30/2013