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PRACTICE QUESTIONS
VR2-5 Which of these statements best supports the claim that as far as
drama was concerned ‘country gentry could now enjoy culture not available to many Londoners’? A. Before 1788 theatres were only
legally allowed in London.
B. After 1788 new theatres were
opened in several provincial
towns.
C. Theatre managers in London
experimented with new types
of amusement.
D. In the 1690s royal sponsorship
of theatres was replaced by commercial interests.
VR2-7 Using information contained in the passage, it is most likely that parliament would have objected to the play The Golden Rump, because it was:
VR2-6 In the eighteenth century the main target audience for theatre managers was:
A. the upper classes.
A. London magistrates.
B. members of the government. C. the Lord Chamberlain’s office. D. theatre managers and owners.
B. country gentry.
C. members of the government. D. the middle and working classes.
A. satirical
B. anti-government
C. individually insulting D. badly written
VR2-8 It is most likely that the author believed one of the main targets attacked by playwrights between 1690 and 1730 to be:
Verbal Reasoning
VR3 – Exchange Rates
A basket of chosen groceries may cost
£50 in the UK, but to pay for those same groceries in a supermarket in the USA you would need to have exchanged your pounds for US dollars.
People exchange some of their own currency for that of another country in order to
buy goods from that country or to save
their money in that country - for example, Australia. People choose to save their money in other countries to get a better return
than they would in the UK. Such savings would involve lending to a bank by the UK individual and borrowing by the bank.
However, the prices at which currencies are bought and sold uctuate more than the groceries. A way to avoid all the uncertainty of buying or selling goods from or to
other countries in different currencies is for countries all to use the same currency, as in the eurozone. Hence the euro was introduced in 1999 and, by 2013, was used by 17 countries which previously had 17 different currencies all with their own exchange rates.
If someone in France buys goods from a firm in Spain or goes on holiday to Italy, there
are no currency issues because they are all using the euro. By contrast, if exchange
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