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When applied !o written records, the word "preservation" is fraught with multiple meanings and connotations For some archivists, preservation involves the attempt to save artifacts from physical deterioration and is synonymous with the conservation of original documents. For archivists with a contrary view, the overriding obligation is to save intellectual content through the use of surrogates. Thus the original earners of information are seen as superfluous and consequently disposable The practice of microfilming old newspapers and discarding the originals is one example of such preservation. On yet another level, preservation considers whether limited storage space should be allotted indefinitely to materials that are rarely consulted or whether certain items are so peripheral to current interests that they should be discarded altogether to ensure a home for more-pertinent materials.
In the context in which it appears, "obligation most nearly means

• A. imposition
• B. compulsion
• C. liability
• D. responsibility
• E. prerequisite

Female Australian Duiiatothrip.% (small, sap-sucking insects] create tent-like structures on the surface of leaves to protect themselves and their eggs and larvae from desiccation in the arid Australian climate. Bono and Crespi compared survival and reproduction of tlirips that founded structures alone with those in groups of two or more individuals. They found that although per capita egg production fell with increasing group size, foundresses were more likely to survive and lay eggs in groups than when alone. Several studies of other species of nest-building insects have concluded that foundress associations are beneficial to all parties. It is likely that the relative success of groups is at least in part accounted for by a reduction of energy use in the modification of a shared nest.
The author would most likely agree with which of the following claims about Australian Drmatolhrips ?

• A. Their effect on the leaves used to support their tent-like structures is not necessarily permanent
• B. They modify nests in different ways depending on what other species are present in their vicinity.
• C. They exhibit an effect from collective activity that is also found in certain other insect species.
• D. They expend as much energy to create tent-like structures as they do to produce broods.
• E. Their offspring survival rates increase when larger groups cooperate to modify nests.

The poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African Americans of the southern United States. Although Dunbar's works were both popular with readers and acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the poet James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the
1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of Dunbar's works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.
Which of the following general criticisms of dialect poetry is mentioned in the passage?

• A. Dialect poetry is highly limited in the number of artistic effects it can produce.
• B. Dialect poetry too often uses only the dialect of African Americans living in rural areas of the southern United States.
• C. Dialect poetry fails to represent mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of experience.
• D. Dialect poetry has only a limited degree of popular appeal
• E. The use of dialect in poetry tends to perpetuate plantation stereotypes of African Americans.

The sequence a1, a2, a3 ,,,,an is defined by

• A. The two quantities are equal.
• B. Quantity A is greater.
• C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
• D. Quantity B is greater.

• A. 6%
• B. 29%
• C. 25%
• D. 12%
• E. 16%