501 Critical Reading Questions

d. generalized statement
e. illustration by example
501
Critical Reading Questions
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379.
All of the following questions can be explicitly answered on the
basis of the passage EXCEPT
a. What is the ratio of the length of one’s hip to floor divided by
knee to floor?
b. What is the precise mathematical ratio of PHI?
c. What is the ratio of the length of one’s shoulder to fingertips
divided by elbow to fingertips?
d. What is the ratio of the length of one’s head to the floor divided
by shoulder’s to the floor?
e. What is the ratio of each sunflower seed spiral rotation’s 
diameter to the next?
380.
According to both passages, the terms ancient Mystery Schools
(Passage 1, line 43), early scientists (Passage 2, line 22), and ancients
(Passage 2, line 46) signify what about the divine proportion?
a. Early scholars felt that the Divine Proportion was a magical
number.
b. Early scholars found no scientific basis for the Divine 
Proportion.
c. Early mystery writers used the Divine Proportion.
d. Early followers of Pythagoras favored the Pythagorean theorem
over the divine proportion.
e. Early followers of Kepler used the Divine Proportion in 
astronomy.
381.
Which of the following is NOT true of the pentagon?
a. It is considered both divine and magical by many cultures.
b. It is a geometric figure with five equal sides meeting at five
equal angles.
c. It is a geometric figure whereby PHI is the ratio of any diagonal
to any side.
d. If you draw an inverted inner pentagon inside a pentagon, it is
in PHI ratio to the initial outer pentagon.
e. A polygon having five sides and five interior angles is called a
pentagon.
Questions 382–390 are based on the following passage.