In her analysis of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905), scholar Candace Waid observes that the novel depicts the upper classes of New York society as “consumed by the appetite of a soulless ______ an apt assessment given that The House of Mirth is set during the Gilded Age, a period marked by rapid industrialization, economic greed, and widening wealth disparities. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) materialism
• B) materialism
• C) materialism,
• D) materialism

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the following questions:

Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.

One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.

The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.

• A. surprise
• B. anger
• C. approval
• D. disdain

Which of the following statement is an exception in the assumptions of the kinetic theory of gases?

• A) The particles are of negligible size
• B) the particles are in constant random motion
• C) the particles are of negligible mass
• D) the particles collide with each other

The disciple in Damascus who prayed for Saul (Paul) to receive his sight alter his conversion was

• A) Ananias
• B) Sepphira
• C) Barnabas
• D) Thomas

My soul is very sorrowful, even to death, remain here and watch with me... Jesus made this statement to

• A. Peter, James and John
• B. the seventy disciples
• C. the twelve apostles
• D. Andrew, James and Steven

The net profit from a trading account of a non-profit making organization would be treated as income in the

• A. income and expenditure account
• B. receipt and payment account
• C. balance sheet
• D. statement of affairs

When condensation occurs in a rising air mass, latent heat is?

• A. absorbed by carbon dioxide
• B. lost to the atmosphere
• C. stored in the water molecules
• D. released as sensible heat

One of the characteristics of private enterprises is ______?

• A. Provision of welfare to the citizens
• B. That tax payers bear all the risks
• C. Public ownership of shares
• D. Individual funding of business activities

Elastic demand is the type in which a change in price

• A. brings about greater change in quantity of goods demanded
• B. of a commodity leads to little or no change in demand
• C. leads to equal change in commodity demanded
• D. may not change the demand of quantity of commodity.

Which of the following resources cannot be renewed?

• A. Air
• B. Petroleum
• C. Food crop
• D. Soil