14. Individual political organizations often join together to form coalitions to increase the support for their issues.
(A) partnerships
(B) contests
(C) lectures
(D) cracks

10. Inflation, according to economists such as Milton Friedman, was caused by extravagant governments printing too much money to pay for excessive wage settlements and public spending pledges. (A) stingy (B) profligate (C) cheap (D) ecstatic

11. Employers commonly use furloughs to reduce spending and survive a budget crisis. (A) bailouts (B) hiring freezes (C) tax cuts (D) leaves of absence

12. Rutger Bregman’s book Utopia for Realists is praised as “a wonderful call to utopian thinking around incomes and the workweek, and a welcome antidote to the pessimism surrounding robots taking our jobs.” (A) dexterity (B) epitome (C) remedy (D) solitary

13. Nepotism is commonplace where I work: the boss’s daughter is vice-president of the company, her husband runs the order department, and their son has just started working in the warehouse. (A) good managerial practice (B) favoritism to relatives (C) arguments among employees (D) confusion among management

15. In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, a person will go on huge eating binges and then try to nullify the outrageous food intake by purposely vomiting or strictly dieting. (A) increase (B) repeat (C) undo (D) delay

16. But accomplishing all this social learning without in-person interactions is difficult, _____ impossible, under quarantine. (A) if (B) if not (C) if only (D) as if

17. Electric scooters have appeared in dozens of cities _____ plenty of fans and as many enemies who view them as a nuisance. (A) are winning (B) won (C) winning (D) have won

18. The Liberty Bell is an object of great reverence because it _____ in 1776 to proclaim the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (A) was rung (B) were rung (C) has rung (D) rung

19. The capacity for flight _____ insects from the other invertebrates. (A) distinguish (B) to distinguish (C) distinguishing (D) distinguishes

20. Which of the following is grammatically accurate? (A) Malvin Gray Johnson is noted especially for the pictures who he painted in Brightwood, Virginia, in the late summer of 1934. (B) Successful economists must be able understand the effect of world events on national economies. (C) The distinction between complex and simple lipids lie in their cell structure. (D) The fundamental problem of a tax system is to collect enough money to pay for the expenses of government.