The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance; helping people outside the United States to understand American culture; and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries.
Which of the following activities would NOT fit the stated goals of the Peace Corps?
| Teaching English to local business owners in Croatia. | |
| Setting up a computer network for an elementary school in Taiwan. | |
| Organizing a foreign exchange program for an American high school. | |
| Organizing a protest against unfair labor laws in Bangladesh. |
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?
| Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president. | |
| The Democratic Party is a major political party in the United States. | |
| The Republican Party lost national political influence after the Civil War. | |
| The Republican Party was formed by people opposed to slavery. |
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. As such, it circles the sun faster than all the other planets, which is why Romans named it after the swift-footed messenger god Mercury.
Mercury was known since at least Sumerian times roughly 5,000 years ago, where it was often associated with Nabu, the god of writing. Mercury was also given separate names for its appearance as both a morning star and as an evening star.
Greek astronomers knew, however, that the two names referred to the same body. Heraclitus believed that both Mercury and Venus orbited the Sun, not the Earth.
According to this passage:
| The Sumerians thought Mercury was two different stars, one in the morning and one in the evening. | |
| Heraclitus believed that Mercury orbited the sun. | |
| The Greeks named Mercury after one of their gods. | |
| The Romans named Mercury after one of their gods because Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. |