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Test
1
5
10)
A
student
multiplied
a
number
by
3/5
instead
of
5/3. What
is
the
percent-
age
error
in
the
calculation?
A. 34%
B. 44%
C. 64%
D. 54%
E. 24%
11) Clouds are caused by what?
A. Evaporation
B. Humidity
C. Water vapour condensing
D. Melting ice crystals
E. Transpiration
12) Where is the tropic of Capricorn?
A. North of the Equator
B. On the Equator
C. South of the Equator
D. Both sides of the Equator
E. On the Greenwich Meridian
13) In which of the following Shake-
spearean plays can we find the character
of
Titania
?
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. The Tempest
E. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
14) The Commonwealth of Nations was
created as:
A. a statement of British colonialism
B. an association of states politically and
economically subject to Britain
C. a free association of independent
states with strong economic and cul-
tural links with Great Britain
D. the first step towards a European
Community
E. the first step towards the birth of the
United Nations
15) The two major British parties are:
A. Democratic and Republican
B. Conservative and Liberal
C. Conservative and Democratic
D. Labour and Conservative
E. Republican and Conservative
16) The steam engine was invented by:
A. Stevenson
B. Meucci
C. Newton
D. Edison
E. Watt
17) The term survival of the fittest was
originally associated with:
A. sport
B. war games
C. darwinism
D. politics
E. economics
18) Which river flows through Paris?
A. Tiber
B. Rhine
C. Danube
D. Loire
E. Seine
19) What was Stanley Kubrick’s national-
ity, the director of the famous movie
Shining
(1980)?
A. German
B. English
C. Hungarian
D. American
E. Czech
20)
1984
by George Orwell was written in:
A. 1935
B. 1954
C. 1948
D. 1939
E. 1944