Civil Service Reading Comprehension Practice Test Results

Question 1
62% answer correctly

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." - Emma Lazarus, inscription for the Statue of Liberty


In the context of this paragraph the word "teeming" means:

Overflowing
Dirty
Homeless
Wet
Question 2
63% answer correctly

The Urnero (Leptodactylus latinasus) is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, rural gardens, and ponds.


What can you conclude about the Urnero?

It prefers an urban habitat.
It prefers a habitat with high altitude.
It`s found primarily in Central America.
It prefers a wet habitat.
Question 3
55% answer correctly

The Republican Party, also commonly called the GOP (for `Grand Old Party`), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932.

There have been 18 Republican presidents, the first being Abraham Lincoln, serving from 1861 to 1865, and the most recent (as of 2013) being George W. Bush, serving from 2001 to 2009.


Based on this passage, which of the following statements is not true?

The Republican Party lost national political influence after the Civil War.
The Democratic Party is a major political party in the United States.
The Republican Party was formed by people opposed to slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president.