MCAT Practice Test IV: Verbal Reasoning

This is a timed test. Your start time is: 9:27

You should spend 85 minutes answering these 65 questions, so your stop time should be about: 10:52

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Directions: There are nine passages in the Verbal Reasoning test. Each passage is followed by several questions. After reading a passage, select the one best answer to each question. If you are not certain of an answer, eliminate the alternatives that you know to be incorrect and then select an answer from the remaining alternatives. (On this web exam: if you leave an answer blank, I'll give you ¼ point.) Indicate your answer by clicking on the appropriate button on this sheet.

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Passage I: Human Rights
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Passage II: "Woman Writer"
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Passage III: Physician-Prisoner
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Passage IV: Altrusim
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Passage V: Flower Evolution
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Passage VI: Orangutan
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Passage VII: "nothing but an animal"
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Passage VIII: democratic growth
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Passage IX: Zoraster
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