TITA PJ

1

A. More than a dozen countries in Europe have criminalized it, and
many societies have viewed it as a serious moral breach.


B There exists an increasingly influential variety of Holocaust
revisionism that, although it is not a form of denial, transgresses
the standards of legitimate scholarship.


C The historian Omer Bartov emphasizes the distinction between "the
wholly objectionable politics of denial and the fully legitimate
scholarly revision of previously accepted conventional interpretations
of any historical event, including the Holocaust."


D. Among the abuses of the Holocaust, one in particular, Holocaust
denial, has been given a name.


2



A But Huxley offered a polite dissent from Orwell's premise: "I feel
that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate
into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I
imagined in Brave New World."


B Published in 1949, nearly two decades after Huxley's masterpiece,
Orwell's 1984depicted a world in which the state imposes its will by
force.


C Huxley thought it more likely that in the long run, despots would
find it efficient to coddle rather than coerce humans into conformity.


D Huxley wrote a fan letter to Orwell after 1984 appeared,
complimenting him on "how fine and how profoundly important the book
is."


3


A It is as if naming by itself can transform reality, as, indeed, it
sometimes does.


B A series of famous adventures are narrated both as Don Quixote sees
them and as they are in reality.


C To no avail his squire cautions that those are windmills, not
giants; sheep, not soldiers; and a barber's basin, not "the helmet of
Mambrino."


D The book starts out describing the hero's peculiar, literary
madness, his decrepit armor and pasteboard helmet, and the beaten-down
old horse he grandiloquently names Rosinante, in imitation of the
steeds in chivalric epic.


4

A Most technological breakthroughs come from technologists tinkering,
not from researchers chasing hypotheses.


B Innovation is a mysteriously difficult thing to dictate.


C Heretical as it may sound, "basic science" isn't nearly as
productive of new inventions as we tend to think.


D Technology seems to change by a sort of inexorable, evolutionary
progress, which we probably cannot stop—or speed up much either. And
it's not much the product of science.


5

A The characters, though funny, could stir up shockingly heated
arguments over how to survive and still be a decent human being in a
bitter world
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B Peanuts was deceptive. It looked like kid stuff, but it wasn't.

C The strip's cozy suburban conviviality, its warm fuzziness, actually
conveyed some uncomfortable truths about the loneliness of social
existence.

D Who was better at it—Charlie Brown or Snoopy?