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18. According to the information in the passage,

which of the following is LEAST likely to be a

function of accounting?

a. helping business people make sound judg￾ments

b. producing reports of many different kinds of

transactions

c. assisting with the marketing of products

d. assisting companies in important planning

activities

e. providing information to potential investors

Answer questions 19 and 20 on the basis of the fol￾lowing passage.

The fictional world of Toni Morrison’s novel

Sula—the African-American section of Medallion,

Ohio, a community called “the Bottom”—is a place

where people, and even natural things, are apt to go

awry, to break from their prescribed boundaries, a

place where bizarre and unnatural happenings and

strange reversals of the ordinary are commonplace.

The very naming of the setting of Sula is a turning￾upside-down of the expected; the Bottom is located

high up in the hills. The novel is furthermore filled

with images of mutilation, both psychological and

physical. A great part of the lives of the characters,

therefore, is taken up with making sense of the world,

setting boundaries and devising methods to control

what is essentially uncontrollable. One of the major

devices used by the people of the Bottom is the seem￾ingly universal one of creating a ____________—in

this case, the title character Sula—upon which to proj￾ect both the evil they perceive outside themselves and

the evil in their own hearts.

19. Based on the description of the setting of the

novel Sula, which of the following adjectives

would most likely describe the behavior of many

of its residents?

a. cowardly

b. artistic

c. unkempt

d. arrogant

e. eccentric

20. Which of the following words would BEST fit

into the blank in the final sentence of the

passage?

a. victim

b. hero

c. leader

d. scapegoat

e. outcast

Answer questions 21–23 on the basis of the follow￾ing passage.

Ever since human beings began their conscious

sojourn on this planet, they have puzzled over the rid￾dle of evil and debated its source. Two concepts have

predominated in the debate. The first of these holds

that evil is an active force, a force of darkness as sub￾stantial and powerful as that of light. In terms of the

individual human being, this force might be seen as

the “Shadow” side of the personality, the feared side

that the individual may deny but that is still a real and

integral part of her or him. The second of the two con￾cepts holds that evil is essentially ___________, the

absence of good, that darkness is not a thing in itself

but rather the absence of light. In terms of the indi￾vidual human being, this doctrine says that evil arises

from a lack, a deprivation, from what John A. Sanford

calls “a mutilation of the soul.”

–CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1–

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