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2601. What happens when you insert an AutoShape by simply clicking in the document?
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A. it is inserted in its default size

B. all of the above

C. it appears near the insertion point

D. is selected

2602. What happens when an saline-alkaline soil is reached with water:
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A. pH decrease, Ec increase

B. pH & Ec both increase

C. pH increase & Ec decrease

D. None of these

2603. What happens when an saline-alkaline soil is reached with water:
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A. pH decrease, Ec increase

B. pH & Ec both increase

C. pH increase & Ec decrease

D. None of these

2604. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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A. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada

B. the Act of Union

C. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

D. the Toleration Act

2605. What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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A. Romances

B. Comedies

C. All of the above

D. Tragedies

2606. What functionality of Requirement Management Tool (RMT) is depicted by the statement: the tool should be able to automatically detect relations between artifacts. For example information retrieval techniques, monitoring of change history, naming schemas or model transformations________________________?
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A. Automatic Link Creation and Change

B. Documentation Support

C. Graphical Representation

D. Automatic Link Detection
2607. What function do politicians serve according to pluralists ?
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A. Statesmen

B. Front men

C. Power and interest brokers

D. Shills or decoys

2608. What fraction of inhaled mercury vapors retained in the body ?
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A. 45-55%

B. 65-85%

C. 55-65%

D. More than 85%

2609. What fraction of inhaled mercury vapors retained in the body ?
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A. 65-85%

B. 45-55%

C. More than 85%

D. 55-65%

2610. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse ?
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A. the conviction that he was damned forever

B. condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier

C. the vindication of Newtonian physics

D. the loss of his fortune in the \South Sea Bubble

2611. What does the term renaissance mean ?
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A. Drama

B. Death

C. Rebirth

D. Theater

2612. What does the phrase White Mans Burden, coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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A. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world

B. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the worlds problems

C. Britains manifest destiny to colonize the world

D. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
2613. What does symbol O imply in work study________________?
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A. delay/temporary storage

B. none of the above

C. inspection

D. operation

E. transport

2614. What does PUBG stands for _____?
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A. Player Unknown Battle Grand

B. Player Unknown Battle Global

C. None of these

D. PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds
2615. What does OSS stand for ?
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A. Open Source Software

B. Original Source Software

C. Original System Server

D. Open System Software

2616. What does one call property owned by the state in the name of the people ?
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A. common law

B. communal

C. private

D. public
2617. What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is performed ?
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A. Gender does not reflect an essential truth, but rather is a role people play based on their internalization of socially constructed gender roles.

B. Real gender roles are scripted by excellent writers.

C. Only individuals who have the capacity to perform have gender.

D. Gender roles do not exist.

2618. What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?
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A. It is impossible to separate a text from the linguistics that compose it.

B. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.

C. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.

D. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.

2619. What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature ?
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A. All of the above answers are correct.

B. Considering womens literature outside of its historical context

C. Becoming more familiar with the history of women and womens writing

D. Examining only female-authored literature more critically

2620. What does FSF stand for ?
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A. First Serve First

B. File Server First

C. Free Software Foundation

D. Free Software File

2621. What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious ?
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A. Look at her reflection in a stream

B. Go in search of her mate

C. Eat of the Tree of Knowledge

D. Talk to the animals

2622. What does Ben Jonson mean by a Humorous Character ?
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A. A character who is by nature melancholy

B. A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body

C. A character who is always cheerful and gay

D. An eccentric person

2623. What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
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A. an overstatement about something

B. a long verse

C. a long narrative poem

D. an overriding view

2624. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?
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A. a song for mourning

B. a two line stanza

C. a poem of lamentation

D. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
2625. What do you call the after-tax present worth of all depreciation effects over the depreciation period of the asset ?
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A. Depreciation recovery

B. Period recovery

C. After-tax recovery

D. Asset recovery

2626. What do you call a collection of character and paragraph formatting commands?
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A. the defaults

B. a boilerplate

C. a template

D. a style
2627. What do you call a collection of character and paragraph formatting commands?
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A. the defaults

B. a style

C. a template

D. a boilerplate

2628. What do Wordsworths Tintern Abbey and Coleridges Dejection Ode have in common ?
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A. The sense of hope that death will come soon

B. An identical rhyme structure

C. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages

D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life
2629. What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
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A. she emphasizes practical rather than theological virtues

B. All of the Above

C. she does not mention traditional virtues like piety

D. she values reason and activity instead of silence

2630. What do most critics believe the rose of The Romance of the Rose symbolizes ?
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A. sexuality

B. justice

C. education

D. piety

2631. What did you make __________ the lecture?
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A. on

B. about

C. of

D. in

2632. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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A. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

B. Britains preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

C. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

D. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

2633. What did the family do to protect the children from the uncle ?
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A. They dressed the boys like girls and told them to behave as girls do

B. They formed a mob and chased the uncle out of the village

C. They dressed the girls like boys and told them to behave as boys do

D. They locked the uncle away until the children were old enough to protect themselves

2634. What did Pakistanis Google the most in 2021?
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A. Pakistan vs South Africa

B. T20 world cup

C. None of these

D. Khuda Aur Mohabbat

2635. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to Peddlers, and Boats, and Wagons! ?
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A. the clumsiness of Shakespeares plots

B. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge

C. Wordsworths devotion to the ordinary and everyday

D. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden

2636. What denotes in the fall in the exchange rate of one currency in terms of the others? This term is usually applies to the floating exchange rate______________?
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A. Currency depreciation

B. Currency appreciation

C. Currency devaluation

D. Currency float

2637. What defines the circumstances in which a particular operation is valid ?
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A. Contradictions

B. None of the mentioned

C. Vagueness

D. Post-condition

2638. What country has three official languages?
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A. South Africa

B. France

C. Japan

D. Nepal

E. Belgium
2639. What country had the third largest area of forest ?
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A. Russia

B. Canada

C. Brazil

D. United States

2640. What country had the largest area of forest ?
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A. Brazil

B. Canada

C. United States

D. Russia

2641. What country does the play, Alls Well that Ends Well, take place in ?
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A. France

B. England

C. Spain

D. Denmark

2642. What constitutes a monstrous Other in The Yellow Wallpaper ?
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A. Cousin Henry and Julia

B. Writing

C. John

D. Reading

2643. What command is used with vi editor to move forward to the end of a word ?
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A. d

B. e

C. c

D. b

2644. What command is used to summarize the disk usage ?
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A. chkdsk

B. disk

C. fdisk

D. du
2645. What command is used to query for a specific package with RPM ?
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A. rpm -1

B. rpm -a

C. rpm -d

D. rpm -q
2646. What command is used to display your current working directory ?
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A. prompt $p$g

B. path

C. dir

D. pwd
2647. What command is used to compare the files ?
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A. du

B. cmp

C. ccp

D. comp

2648. What colour show extremely hazard to human being_________________?
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A. Red

B. Brown

C. Yellow

D. Blue

2649. What code-name is given by Turkey to military operation in north eastern Syria against Kurd Militia?
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A. Peace for life

B. Save Syria

C. Peace Border

D. Peace Spring
2650. What causes convective acceleration in fluid flow ?
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A. Turbulence in flow

B. Non-uniformity of flow

C. Steep slope in flow

D. Unsteady nature of flow

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