GMAT – Section 1: Test 4

Part A

Read the sentence from paragraph 2.

What is the meaning of the word arrogates as it is used in the sentence?

Part B

Which language feature provides context for determining the meaning of arrogates?

A. The way in which “rather” signals a contrast with “State’s elected officials”.
B. The way in which “finally” emphasizes the importance of the conclusion .
C. The way in which “charged” describes the responsibilities of the officials.
D. The way in which “the decision” relates back to “finally”.

Part A

What is the main purpose of the dissenting opinion?

A. To support the rights of students based on the Constitution and to question legal decisions that limit those rights.
B. To suggest that the majority opinion overlooked the wishes of school officials and granted students too much power.
C. To argue that the majority opinion is an overreach of court authority and that local officials should have the authority to make the decisions they made.
D. To applaud the students who agreed to remove the black armbands and to suggest that the armbands did indeed cause some disruptions.

Part B

Which quotation from paragraph 1 of the dissenting opinion supports the answer to Part A?

A. “The Court’s holding in this case ushers in what I deem to be an entirely new era in which the power to control pupils by the elected ‘officials of state supported public schools . . .’ in the United States is in ultimate effect transferred to the Supreme Court.”
B. “Here, the constitutional right to ‘political expression’ asserted was a right to wear black armbands during school hours and at classes in order to demonstrate to the other students that the petitioners were mourning because of the death of United States soldiers in Vietnam and to protest that war which they were against.”
C. “Ordered to refrain from wearing the armbands in school by the elected school officials and the teachers vested with state authority to do so, apparently only seven out of the school system’s 18,000 pupils deliberately refused to obey the order.”
D. “Another student who defied the school order and insisted on wearing an armband in school was Christopher Eckhardt, an 11th grade pupil and a petitioner in this case. His mother is an official in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.”

Integrated Reasoning (Questions 17-20)

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